Bonus bug – a large bee fly or Bombylius major, feeding from a wild strawberry flower through its large proboscis 🐝🪰

A famous bee mimic species that looks cute & fluffy, but actually has a dark side, living parasitically off real bees when a larva 😬

Very hard to catch in flight or when feeding as they tend to whizz around at high speed & are quite twitchy around humans. With some more patience, maybe I'll catch one resting 🤞

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