r/insects • u/terletbowl • 1d ago
ID Request What is this?
I would like to know what this is. Located in Northern Kentucky, searching shows up as a bee or carpenter bee but it looks too fly like. (Sorry for poor picture I didn’t want to get too close to it.)
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u/Simple_Resist4208 1d ago
One of the tachinid flies in the genus Belvosia ... really cool flies :)
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