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DATURA12 Fort Worth, TX(Zone 8a) Jul 08, 2010

This one was on my daylily, kinda cute face. Looks bee like, about an inch+long.
Thanks

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Jul 09, 2010

This is a robber fly (Diptera: Asilidae) in the genus Laphria, which includes many excellent bee mimics (see http://tinyurl.com/2at2l7l for an example. These flies are ambush predators on other small arthropods. I cannot put a specific name on yours; you might try submitting your image(s) to http://tinyurl.com/b8dnpq or http://tinyurl.com/4fdrxe to see if you can get a response.

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DATURA12 Fort Worth, TX(Zone 8a) Jul 10, 2010

Thanks a bunch

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Sheila_FW Fort Worth, TX(Zone 8a) Jul 11, 2010

Not so cute now huh Peg.

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DATURA12 Fort Worth, TX(Zone 8a) Jul 12, 2010

Very Funny..amazing how your thoughts change when your trying to protect the BF's. I was a woman on a mission to kill those wasps when I saw they were killing my larvae. Which as you know I have a hard time killing anything.
Peg

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