Bee-fly

[Jason Green]

Wow Linda, you must bee very proud of these!

[LindaB]

Originally Posted by glsammy

The two rejected images did not have the correct name on them, they simply had "Bee Fly" as the title and nothing else. It's as simple as that. So I'm afraid your memory is incorrect, somewhere along the process the title wasn't corrected.

Thanks for looking into it - must have copied the title from the first one and forgot to paste it into the others lol

Originally Posted by Jason Green

Wow Linda, you must bee very proud of these!

Thanks Jason - yes I was pretty pleased with how these came out which was purely because I had more than one to photograph at the time as I normally dont get that many opportunities to get more than a couple of quick shots of them.

Thanks again everyone for your nice comments on the pics and wanting to see some more

Linda

[moonpenny01]

Have just found my first bee-fly, (Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire) which although very attractive, is a parasite of solitary bees, which are declining. It will be departing for freezer heaven shortly.....

[Naturenutz]

just saw 4 of these bee fly today.Here near bristol.

[marysharp1944]

Linda,

Thx for the lovely pictures! I just saw my first beefly a couple of weekends ago, and have been searching around the internet as I did not know what they were actually called til I stumbled upon your excellent photos.

There seems to be a lack of information about them; wikipedia seems v sparse.

Cheers, Mary

[LindaB]

Hi Mary

Well I am glad my photos were of help to you

I look forward to seeing them every year and try to get as many photos of them as I can.

Hopefully you have found out some more information about them, ie, they are totally harmless, they are a parasitic fly not a bee, they seek out solitary bee holes in the ground to lay their eggs.

Regards

Linda