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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thank goodness. I just grabbed this off Wikipedia and I have no hope with some of these:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Those are some cuties! The ones in the upper middle are especially honey bee-like. One sure fire way to ID is that only bees wear pollen pants (but not all bees are always wearing pollen pants).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

One sure fire way to ID is that only bees wear pollen pants

Great!

(but not all bees are always wearing pollen pants)

Doh!

As I catch up on bee photos it will be interesting if someone identifies a well disguised hover fly.