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Bob_71 Severna Park, MD(Zone 7a) Dec 15, 2010

Nectaring on Coreopsis.

Bob

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Dec 16, 2010

This is a bee fly (Diptera: Bombyliidae); see http://tinyurl.com/29xl8a9 for an example in the genus Chrysanthrax. If you really want to give it a name, I suggest 'Glenda'... ;-)

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Bob_71 Severna Park, MD(Zone 7a) Dec 17, 2010

Taking your lead and browsing bugguide, Is this sufficient to add the "cypris" to mine?

Like your humor very much!

http://bugguide.net/node/view/7614/bgimage

Bob

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Dec 17, 2010

Probably. However, if I have learned anything over the years, just because an image resembles what you have does not necessarily mean that they are one and the same...

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