Please help me identify this bug!

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RachelFinlay43 London, Canada Aug 24, 2014

Shows up every year around August and flies around/lands on the wood on our deck. Please help identify and are they harmful?

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Aug 25, 2014

It's a bee fly (family Bombyliidae) in the genus Xenox - see
http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20p?see=I_SOP2217&res=640 for an example.
Their larvae feed on the larvae of bumble bees...

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