Anyone recognise this insect

[Robert Clark]

Looks like a bee, but it has a funny shaped head

Maybe one for DBK

 

[Figaro]

I think your correct, a type of bee

 

[Stewart J]

It’s one of the Bee flies

 

[Guigsy]

Is this it?

Tachina grossa - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Robert Clark]

Is this it?

Tachina grossa - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

That’s the one

A fly that looks like a bee

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[Guigsy]

I'll be honest, I had no idea. I just fed the image into Google image search...

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[BRASH]

I think your correct, a type of bee

No, not a bee.

It’s one of the Bee flies

Correct, a bee fly, which is of the family of Hover Flies.

 

[Guigsy]

Tip: If you see an odd insect, flower (or pretty much any 'object') that you want to identify, the Google Lens app for your phone will correctly guess it 80% of the time.

 

[BobtheBass]

It's Eric, the half a bee!

 

[barsteward]

or perhaps this? the fully mature variant.

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[barsteward]

Tip: If you see an odd insect, flower (or pretty much any 'object') that you want to identify, the Google Lens app for your phone will correctly guess it 80% of the time.

It worked for me.

 

[Larrynwin]

 

[Jaws]

Looks like a bee, but it has a funny shaped head

Maybe one for DBK

Yes. I recognise him. met him in a bar in Beni.. I think his name is Derek ( he was drunk as a skunk having fell in a pint of Newcastles best ) and he comes from Nunneaton

 

[BRASH]

It's Eric, the half a bee!

You're too old if you remember that

 

[movan]

I thought it was a cluster fly .......
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I was wrong. but I'm used to that.

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[Two on Tour]

It's not a bee as bee's have 4 wings and this only has 2 so likely to be some sort of fly.

 

[Camping Gaza]

oooooooppps double

 

[Camping Gaza]

I thought it was a cluster fly .......

No that's a Cluster Fu....... Oh God I apologise for my mind.

 

[David and Sally]

It;s a Bee- ssacar

 

[BRASH]

It;s a Bee- ssacar

Clever

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[TheAleMan]

It’s one of the Bee flies

yes, just what I was thinking before I see your post.

 

[rangi]

I don't care what it is, if it comes anywhere near me!!!!!

 

[Stewart J]

Worth recording. https://species.nbnatlas.org/species/NBNSYS0000030132

 

[Stewart J]

You won’t believe it we have one in the house big slow flying beggar.

 

[Gooney]

It’s a cross between a Bee and a Horsefly, it’s a BeeGee

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[Stewart J]

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[Gooney]

It’s a cross between a Bee and a Horsefly, it’s a BeeGee

Apparently there very good at ‘Stayin Alive’

 

[namwaldog]

It's a Fly that goes all over Europe messing things up...

It's a ......






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Bee-wrecks-it

 

[Candapack]

If an Old Woman turns up, look away. It won't be pretty.

 

[denisejoe]

Apparently there very good at ‘Stayin Alive’

No they are not only one left

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