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[–] Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago

Not a bee, they have legs fuzzies for collecting pollen, and are generally hairier than wasps. This may be a wasp or another insect mimicking a bee/wasp possibly?

[–] andthenthreemore@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks like a hover fly. The fact your asking means that its evolutionary colouring has worked. They're completely harmless, but they've evolved the colouring of bees / wasps to trick predictors.

[–] bort@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

I always thought hoverflies were way smaller

[–] CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work 2 points 1 year ago