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[-] andthenthreemore@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

Looks like a hover fly. The fact your asking means that its evolutionary colouring has worked. They're completely harmless, but they've evolved the colouring of bees / wasps to trick predictors.

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[-] bort@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

I always thought hoverflies were way smaller

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