Hover Flies are often mistaken for bees. The eyes are a decent giveaway (files have huge eyes that basically cover the whole head, looking sorta like a motorcycle helmet), plus bees tend to be furrier and fly a little less gracefully. If you get a closer look, bees have 4 wings, flies have two.
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I sit and watch for bee butts in my wildflowers. | Spyke
That is a fly butt. Still cute!
Fly butt!
looks like a
horse fly. I have learned something new. it is a drone fly!. thank you for the correction, malice!Just a drone fly, not a horse fly.
thank you so much! fixed.
Is this a bee butt?
That is also a fly butt!
Do I have any bees??? Is my life a lie???
Hover Flies are often mistaken for bees. The eyes are a decent giveaway (files have huge eyes that basically cover the whole head, looking sorta like a motorcycle helmet), plus bees tend to be furrier and fly a little less gracefully. If you get a closer look, bees have 4 wings, flies have two.