#Bee Flies

[ichbineinkriechend]

these adorable little bitches are SO fucking fast, this is the first time I managed to get pictures of one 😌

[ID: Three pictures of a bee-fly (Wollschweber, bombylius) sitting on a buttercup. End ID]

[rattyexplores]

Bee fly at the community gardens.

13/01/24 - Petrorossia sp.

QLD:WET

[alatar-and-pallando]

i forgot to show you this adorable bee fly I met the other day!!

so big!

The larvae these guys produce are parasitic on the eggs and larvae of solitary bees and wasps. So their mimicry of bees serves two possible purposes: It may scare predators that don't want to be stung away and it might also let them sneak closer to solitary bees' burrows without getting chased away.

[venlycat]

guys.

you can't tell me this isn't the bug of all time.

[satanachia666]

Anthrax Beelzebub Fabr. 🐝🖤💛

Diptera, Fauna Germanica (1793) 🪰🌿🌼

Wikimedia Commons

[toothedgoose]

Xenox tigrinus (Diptera: Bombyliidae)

Tiger bee fly

20 of July 2023 - Maryland, USA

I’d been trying to get a good picture of one for a while! They are very large and mysterious, therefore extremely alluring to a lil’ entomologist-in-training like me. I’m so happy to learn about this friend.

“The tiger bee fly is a parasite of large carpenter bees (Xylocopa). Most common in eastern North America, it occurs as far southwest as Arizona.”

- Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America (Eaton & Kaufman)

They lay eggs in the entrance of carpenter bee nests, and the larvae of the bee fly consume the larvae of the carpenter bee. So interesting!

[etakeh]

I'm doing a little basic research on bee flies, for "hey can you photoshop a flying jerboa for me" reasons, and noticed

??? anthrax ??? bee fly?

Yes...

May I introduce: Anthrax anthrax

my new favorite.

[whatnext10]

Bee Flies are Very Interesting to Watch Feed

Bee Flies are Very Interesting to Watch Feed discusses bee flies which are flies that strongly resemble bees. It particularly discusses their feeding habits and an unusual feeding behavior noticed by the author.

Bee Fly and Turkey Tangle A few weeks ago I went to one of our local retention ponds to release a turtle that I had found. The area around the retention pond was just teeming with all sorts of life. There was a wealth of wildflowers, butterflies, bees, and these bee flies (Villa spp). You can probably see why they are called bee flies. They look very similar to honeybees or bumblebees, but they…

[sandpaperoctopi]

friends

[z-nogyrop]

truly cannot overstate how important it is for everyone to do research into local insect species and just try to notice them when you go outside. there are beautiful metallic blue mud dauber wasps where i live and they’re common in the summer but i just never noticed them until this past year. there are so many dragonflies at the local park. in one walk this june i found ebony jewelwing damselflies and an enormous stinkbug and an emerald-coloured tiger beetle and there is honest to god so much beauty in the insect world if you are willing to look for it

[wabblebees]

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[wild-saber1337]

HIGH METABOLISM NOT FAT!!! (Art by: alastorsart) on Twitter

Vivzie finally confirmed her choice of disign and confirmed that why bee isn't fat is because she is one the rare people with super high metabolism, I know a girl that has a high metabolism she can out eat me a 425lb man (I'm working out and dieting to get healthy again) and not gain a single pound and I'm jealous of her

[goryhorroor]

reblog/or write in the tags some of the movies you watched in school/or your favorite (i'll be adding them to a letterboxd list) here: x

[jupiterswasphouse]

[PHOTOS TAKEN: JULY 27TH, 2023 | Image IDs: Six photos of various insects on a red hummingbird feeder, starting with two photos of a red, black, beige, and yellow paper wasp with curved antennae by itself, before it is subsequently joined by a black and yellow mud dauber wasp with equally curved antennae, two black and yellow bumble bees, and a grey fly /End IDs.]

[ciircuitdragon]

Wasp (and bee and sawfly) holding year in review

From left to right and top to bottom, these are: gall wasp (maybe genus Zopheroteras), sawfly (Dolerus sp.), parasitoid wasp (Encyrtus sp.), cuckoo wasp (Chrysis sp.), unidentified parasitoid wasp, calliopsis cuckoo nomad bee (Holcopasites calliopsidis), male northern paper wasp (Polistes fuscatus), yellow-legged mud-dauber (Sceliphron caementarium)

And my favorite find of the year: a Greene’s giant ichneumonid (Megarhyssa greenei)

All individuals shown here either cannot sting or have very mild stings

Bonus: a convincing bumblebee mimic, the deer bot fly (Cephenemyia sp.)

[celestialmacros]

Tiger Bee Flies (Xenox tigrinus)

July 31 and August 1, 2023

Southeastern Pennsylvania

Body length up to 19 mm