#heterostylum

[herpsandbirds]

Bomber Fly (Heterostylum robustum), family Bombyliidae, Hidalgo County, Texas, USA

This fly is in the Bee Fly family.

photograph by Craig Lipski

#bee fly #heterostylum #bombyliidae #fly #diptera #insect #entomology #animals #nature #north america

[sinnaisanemotionalman]

Suffering is to want knowledge so obscure that all google can find is incomplete Wikipedia articles written by bots and/or in languages you don’t know and articles from other websites that list your search as one example among many others of a broader, yet still extremely obscure, concept.

#trying to name my pokemon after its most similar real life counterpart which seems to be Heterostylum engelhardti #look it up. that's real life cutiefly

[speakingofnature]

This unusual Bomber Fly (Heterostylum robustum) visited our blazing star recently. While hovering much like a hummingbird, it made such a loud buzzing noise that it outdid the bumble bees.

#Bomber Fly #insects #nature #nature photography