This is Peak Parasitoid™️: the scuttle #fly genus #Melaloncha hunts down #bees to parasitize; their maggot will develop in a single host. Check out that ovipositor!!! 😍

According to world expert Brian Brown this is M. valeria
Soltis Center, Costa Rica (August)
#Phoridae @dipteracourse.bsky.social

Great photo, Matt! Melaloncha are very striking 😍