I read yesterday that some flies that mimic bees even visit flowers and enjoy nectar and pollinate. This maybe-bee sure looks flyish to me...
Didn't quite come out, but you can have it anyway. I was hoping it would be the one with the green patch. That blob of almost-greenish out-of-focus color is just the haltere, though, I do believe. The green was not obviously a haltere.
Interesting that the other one had a rear leg of black-to-white, and now this one is yellow-to-black.
Couple of days later: Saw one that made it clear these are hoverflies, and that the green thing is indeed the haltere. Hmph. I was fairly sure of myself, too...
Later again: I thought that was the name. It seems that a lot of what people call hoverflies are fat-abdomened things that are more classically beelike in shape...hmm...
One nice thing about a camera is that you will often enough be surprised by a creature tolerating you whom you would not have tried to bother so much otherwise.
Interesting that the front and middle legs are yellow, but the back leg is black and white.
I missed out on a less-tolerant fly a week or so ago that had a tiny green spot above each middle leg. I would've liked a photo so that I could've seen whether that was a tuft of hairs or what... Ah, the one that got away...
they look like fly legs, so let's call it a fly. It doesn't really matter.
