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barrufetdeltemps.bsky.social
Bon dia! L’Anastoechus nitidulus, coneguda com a mosca abella japonesa, és un dípter de la família Bombyliidae. Té el cos pelut, un aspecte/comportament que recorda el d’un borinot o abella, però és una mosca. S’alimenta del nèctar de les flors i contribueix a la pol·linització.
October 10, 2026 at 8:03 AM
conniemenefee.bsky.social
Just when you find out about hover flies (flower flies) (Syrphidae family) & get overwhelmed, you'll photograph a BEE FLY, which is not a hover fly - even though you'll want to yell, "It looks like a dang hover fly!!" Maybe a Villa spp - a lovely bee fly (Bombyliidae family) #Inverts
Slightly metallic purplish bee fly with stripes on abdomen - on pinkish yarrow
October 8, 2026 at 1:25 AM
lewdcynnia.bsky.social
TFW the type advantage goes hard
We love our lil bombyliidae fairy 💖
September 29, 2026 at 1:35 AM
perrynm.bsky.social
Another Bombyliidae, Villa lateralis. Camden ME. August 1, 2026.
August 30, 2026 at 4:06 PM
drbrianpet.bsky.social
Pollinator Sunday!

This is a Bee Fly

Family Bombyliidae

Genus Exoprosopa

I know these things because I am a bee fly expert

Post your pollinator pictures!

Macro Photography
Large fly. Generally brown. But has that one white stripe across the abdomen. Oh, and I used The Google to try to figure out the species. It got me part-way there.
August 30, 2026 at 1:55 PM
annieleymarie.bsky.social
"On the good looks of bee flies (Bombyliidae): I have yet to meet someone who, when first discovering one of the more hirsute species, has not let out a small squeak of pleasure. The adults will be playing their part in pollinating flowers, while the larvae feast on other immature insects."
August 17, 2026 at 8:44 AM
conniemenefee.bsky.social
Just when you find out about hover flies (Syrphidae family) & get overwhelmed, you'll photograph a BEE FLY, which is not a hover fly - even though you'll want to yell, "It looks like a dang hover fly!!"

Maybe a Villa spp - a lovely bee fly in Bombyliidae family sitting on yarrow

#Inverts 🌿
Small shiny fly with stripes and purplish thorax on tiny pale pink flower cluster
August 15, 2026 at 12:35 PM
cmhmaliani.bsky.social
Las avispas excavadoras del género Bembix tienen superpoderes térmicos. Permanecen activas durante las horas de mas calor de los días de verano, volando a ras de suelo para cazar moscas ultrarápidas de la familia Bombyliidae. Sus músculos de vuelo alcanzan 45ºC, un verdadero desafío fisiológico.
Dos fotos de una hembra de la avispa Bembix bidentata alimentándose en flores de espliego (Lavandula latifolia).
August 7, 2026 at 4:44 PM
adarook666.bsky.social
i kind of think
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombyli...
Bombyliidae - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
July 30, 2026 at 11:13 PM
wiki-potd.bsky.social
The tiger bee fly (Xenox tigrinus) is a species of insect in the family Bombyliidae, the bee flies. It is found in parts of the United States and Canada.
The tiger bee fly (Xenox tigrinus) is a species of insect in the family Bombyliidae, the bee flies. It is found in parts of the United States and Canada.
July 26, 2026 at 4:29 PM
bestofwikipedia.bsky.social
The Picture of the Day of Sunday 26 July 2026 on @wikipedia.org is: Tiger bee fly.

Credits: Rhododendrites.
The tiger bee fly (Xenox tigrinus) is a species of insect in the family Bombyliidae, the bee flies. It is found in parts of the United States and Canada. Its black-and-white body and patterned wings resemble the coloration of a large bee, an example of Batesian mimicry, which helps to deter predators. Females lay their eggs near the nests of carpenter bees, particularly the eastern carpenter bee, and the developing larvae parasitize the bee's young. Adult tiger bee flies are also pollinators. This tiger bee fly was photographed on a leaf in Prospect Park in Brooklyn, New York City. Type: photograph. Credits: Rhododendrites.
July 26, 2026 at 4:06 PM
bfly52.bsky.social
Why don’t you put the higher category”(Diptera: Bombyliidae)” in the title like virtually all scientific journals do?
July 20, 2026 at 6:58 PM
stonebear4747.bsky.social
Bee fly, any insect of the family Bombyliidae (order Diptera). Many resemble bees, and most have long proboscises (feeding organs) that are used to obtain nectar from flowers.
May 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM
brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social
Following on from my post below.

If you want to know more about Bee-flies, there's a brilliant @biologicalrecording.co.uk webinar coming up on 22nd April.

Details & booking here 👇

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bee-flies-...
April 8, 2026 at 7:29 PM
dust-in.bsky.social
bombyliidae! bombyliidae! bombyliidae! #bugs #insects
December 1, 2024 at 5:26 PM
overdoso.bsky.social
Systropus macer é uma espécie da família Bombyliidae que imita uma vespa-da-areia do gênero Ammophila. Isso lhe confere uma aparência peculiar, já que a maioria das outras espécies são arredondadas e peludas.
March 13, 2026 at 12:05 AM
neocortex.bsky.social
#animalmarch
WOLLSCHWEBER / BEE FLY (Bombyliidae)

Hier ist noch einmal Wollschweber - Fanart. 🤗

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neocortex.bsky.social Confusion 🧠 @neocortex.bsky.social · Apr 9
#FliegenderFlausch
#BeeflyWatch
Die Wollschweber (Bombylius) sind im Garten unterwegs! 🐝🥰
Da ich kein gutes Foto machen konnte, habe ich gezeichnet. 😇

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Ink drawing of a garden hedge with various bushes. A bench and a table stand in front of it. A woolly hoverfly floats above. Lines indicate that it has just performed a rapid flying maneuver.
March 14, 2026 at 3:35 AM
neocortex.bsky.social
#animalmarch
WOLLSCHWEBER / BEE FLY (Bombyliidae)

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Tuschezeichnung eines sitzenden Wollschwebers.
March 13, 2026 at 7:07 PM
davidcsimon.bsky.social
I did a Science!
A Bee Fly (Bombyliidae) Taxonomist on iNaturalist has identified one of my observations as Docidomyia froggatti, making it the first and only observation of this species on iNat!
Yay me!
(and Yay Science!)
#bugsky
Side photograph of a medium-sized fly. It has long legs, very large ovoid eyes that make up most of its head, a shiny black thorax, and a long, thing, segmented shiny black abdomen with thin orange/yellow bands. Top down photograph of a medium-sized fly. It has long legs, very large ovoid eyes that make up most of its head, a shiny black thorax, and a long, thing, segmented shiny black abdomen with thin orange/yellow bands.
October 22, 2024 at 3:23 AM
andybugguy.bsky.social
Wishing you all a great, nature-filled weekend!
(Chrysanthrax cypris)
Bombyliidae
#Diptera http://t.co/RCJ8fKlsdK
November 24, 2024 at 3:54 PM
uk-soldierflies.bsky.social
This behaviour is discussed in Szucsicha and Krenn 2002: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/...
Flies and concealed nectar sources: morphological innovations in the proboscis of Bombyliidae (Diptera)
Bee-flies (Bombyliidae) have morphological adaptations of the mouthparts to particular floral traits. To investigate this the short, plesiomorphic proboscis of Hemipenthes morio was compared with the....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 3, 2025 at 9:05 PM
uk-soldierflies.bsky.social
The national recording scheme for Soldierflies, Horseflies, Robberflies, Bee-flies, Snipeflies, Stiletto-flies, Hunchback-flies, Water-snipeflies, Awl-flies, Windowflies and Wood-soldierflies. Info and ID guides at dipterists.org.uk/soldierflies... - please add your records to iRecord!
Collage showing photos on one example from each of the eleven families covered by the Soldierflies and Allies Recording Scheme: Soldierflies (Stratiomyidae) Horseflies (Tabanidae) Robberflies (Asilidae) Snipeflies (Rhagionidae) Stiletto-flies (Therevidae) Bee-flies (Bombyliidae) Water-snipeflies (Athericidae) Hunchback-flies (Acroceridae) Windowflies (Scenopinidae) Wood-soldierflies (Xylomyidae) Awl-flies (Xylophagidae)
November 17, 2024 at 5:08 PM
cmhmaliani.bsky.social
Es una Usia, quizás U. aenea, Bombyliidae.
July 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
cmhmaliani.bsky.social
Hace unas semanas hablaba con un entomólogo joven muy competente sobre el problema que tenemos con los Bombyliidae, una familia sin tratamiento reciente en Iberia. Hay muchos géneros imposibles, Villa es uno de ellos
June 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
cmhmaliani.bsky.social
Podría ser Anthrax binotatus, un Bombyliidae
June 2, 2025 at 9:56 PM