The thick-headed fly Conops quadrimaculata, Longshaw, Billinge
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The thick-headed fly Conops quadrimaculata, Longshaw, Billinge
Image: © Mike Pennington Taken: 24 Jul 2014
A male in a garden, this effective wasp mimic is a bumblebee parasite, and it is one of the true flies, but not, like most wasp mimics, one of the hoverflies, but one of the thick-headed flies (Diptera: Conopidae).
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Image Location
Latitude
53.51326
Longitude
-2.7146