That's definitely a moth.
Looks here, there's a yellow and black moth native to Arizona. Your picture shows a yellow and black insect. This proves it's a moth.
https://bugguide.net/node/view/1568487
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That's definitely a moth.
Looks here, there's a yellow and black moth native to Arizona. Your picture shows a yellow and black insect. This proves it's a moth.
https://bugguide.net/node/view/1568487
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You're about as funny as a kid with cancer.
Are you denying that Eudesmia arida exists?!
I had something similar to the OP in my garden earlier this month. Has colourings similar to a bee, but it's got the head of a fly.
I suspect it's the same bug as in the OP? Has a golden mouth + butt. Slight striping, but big fly eyes.
I suspect it's the same bug as in the OP? Has a golden mouth + butt. Slight striping, but big fly eyes.
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I had something similar to the OP in my garden earlier this month. Has colourings similar to a bee, but it's got the head of a fly.
I suspect it's the same bug as in the OP? Has a golden mouth + butt. Slight striping, but big fly eyes.
Yes looks very similar to OP.
Not at all. Just it's not pertinent to this discussion.
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Look at that bad girl.
Never seen one before in my life.
It’s a UK species…
And yes I did splat it.
I just want to know, at what point did nature think it a good idea to give these little ***** a stinger longer than their own heads?
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I was horrified.
It’s actually a harmless type of saw fly.
The ‘sting’ is actually for laying eggs under pine bark.
Wood wasp or greater horntail
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Queen wasp / hornet is what I first thought.
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Well I can't blame you for not knowing. Its yellow and stripey with an inch long poker sticking out of its butt. It looks everything like something thats going to jab you dead.
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Apparently such a 'wood wasp' tried to lay eggs inside this guy's leg:
https://www.whatsthatbug.com/2014/08/07/wood-wasp-stings-man-england/
https://www.whatsthatbug.com/2014/08/07/wood-wasp-stings-man-england/
Why not just disturb it next time, its flight path and direction will give you a clue.
Hover flies are unmistakeable. Last I knew, any Horse Fly, Wasp etc, do not fly in a same manner of a Hover Fly. Just be prepared to leggit.
Hover flies are unmistakeable. Last I knew, any Horse Fly, Wasp etc, do not fly in a same manner of a Hover Fly. Just be prepared to leggit.
If you're using American language and species to argue I'll think well end it here.
That's what I thought it was. A wood wasp.
I saw my first solitary bee mimic a few weeks ago. They are uncanny until you get close.
The flight pattern and buzz give it away though
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If its buzzing around your flowers its a hoverfly. If its contstantly trying to land on you and bite you (and you'll know about it when they do) its a horse fly and the ones I've seen are dark/tan and nasty little buggers.
Someone said to me once "where did all those wasps come from! I can't step outside my door!" her hanging basket was buzzing with hoverflies and she was cowering I waved my hand over them to shoo them away "they're harmless!" I said, she looked at me amazed. Its surprising what people don't know.
Someone said to me once "where did all those wasps come from! I can't step outside my door!" her hanging basket was buzzing with hoverflies and she was cowering I waved my hand over them to shoo them away "they're harmless!" I said, she looked at me amazed. Its surprising what people don't know.
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Its honestly effortless to tell bees, wasps and hoverflies apart. Then you see these youtube videos with people reacting to scary videos of actual hornets and 9/10 of them go 'Oh bees, they are super cool and important'.
Except I'm not. I've posted a striped yellow British species what...4 times now?