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16-06-2011, 01:25 PM
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| | | Re: Is this a bee or a fly?
Hi mrs p,
This doesn't look real to me! Where are you located?
The back legs have a funny stance and are coming from the abdomen which doesn't happen. I think this is a toy!
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16-06-2011, 01:36 PM
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I can assure you it isn't. I took the picture on my iphone yesterday at 3.20 on the pavement outside my daughter's infant school in Nottingham (NG10) I looked at it really closely it definately wasn't a toy.
Hope someone can help
Thanks
Mrs P
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16-06-2011, 01:56 PM
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| | | Re: Is this a bee or a fly?
It's one of the Cimbex sawflies, rare, variable, and difficult to find information about! |
16-06-2011, 02:44 PM
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Thanks, I thought it would be something common that I just didn't recognise, so it is interesting to know it is something rare and makes me feel better about not knowing what it was. It was dead in the gutter when I went to collect daughter just now. Took a few more pictures of it on iphone from the bottom but don't know if they will have come out. I will post them if they do.
Thanks again
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16-06-2011, 02:56 PM
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mrs p, it has happened before where a toy has been posted but the poster was not aware it was a toy! 
The legs do look to come from the wrong position, but having found Cimbex femoratus I can see how that would happen. File:Cimbex femoratus.JPG - Wikimedia Commons
These other angles will show where the legs are attached, and their peculiar shape.. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cimbex_femoratus
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16-06-2011, 05:42 PM
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I can certainly see what you mean about the back legs JRsbugs, they were really chunky and attached at a very odd angle!
I do appreciate your replying to my post by the way 
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16-06-2011, 06:33 PM
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If you had said you found it outside an infant school in your first post that would have been even more suspect!
From what I have read the red banded form is rarer than the black, but it's in the eakringbirds site which is in your area. The photo they have looks to be a red banded one, according to them it's not so rare but it's a nice find anyway. I often find an insect I have never seen before to find it's supposed to be common. Cimbex femoratus
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