It fell out of the air and died right next to me. Spotted in Melbourne Australia. Quite small, a bit smaller than the tip of a standard flathead screwdriver

A bit of Google Lens’ing suggests it looks quite similar to Eupeodes lapponicus, but that’s a European/North American species. I’m a bit awestruck by the pattern

No stinger

  • Pothetato@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Once upon a time there was a bucket of nasty water. I noticed something swimming around in it. I was shocked to see what looked like huge maggots with long tails like a mouse’s, flip flopping around like mosquito larvae but so much worse. After some googling I learned it was probably hoverfly larvae and since then I never looked at these flies the same way.