Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Life in my garden today, 1 by hill5422

hill5422 wrote:
Hi KKB,

Saw your post and asked hubby about the above fly in question. He says it is a bee fly, of the Bombyliidae family in the Diptera order--the true flies with one pair of wings. He does have a PhD in this stuff, so I trust him pretty much with IDs.

Here is a pic I took of a bee fly on some cosmos that is related to yours. Hubby says mine is puking whereas yours is feeding, LOL. Our flies don't look too similar but they ARE in the same family, like spearmint and perilla are in the same family but don't look much alike, or even smell alike for that matter. ;-)