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What Is This Bug?

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what is this 2 inch long black flying bug? (midwest.social)
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this thing buzzed past me like a hummingbird and then sat on my raised bed wall for a while. the wood it's sitting on is roughly 1 inch wide. bug was about 2 inches long. what is?

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[โ€“] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

According to Seek, it is a clubbed mydas fly.