Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: Resembles a Soldierfly?, 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
I have the male too, he was there the first time but I wasn't sure if it belonged with her. He was somewhere near but not feeding.

Today he kept going to the blue lupin and sat in the same place. When she arrived he buzzed up to her, several times, I thought they were going to be mating but there was another male around. It would seem he was making sure another male didn't mate with her!

He's a lot smaller than her. This was his perching leaf, a purplish aquilegia leaf, he used the same leaf and another one the same colour.