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Identify this Bees for ID please

Bees for ID please

Temporarily Misplaced 22/08/2021 19:37

Hi,

Can anyone help identify these three bees please?

Thanks in advance

TM

+1 Internetman 22/08/2021 22:22

I think they’re drone flies (honey bee mimics, a type of hover fly).
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0 Temporarily Misplaced 23/08/2021 07:40 in reply to Internetman

Ahh, thanks. I'll look them up.
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0 tuwit 23/08/2021 18:39

Definitely dipterans and not hymenopterans.

Second & third could be common drone fly.

www.naturespot.org.uk/.../common-drone-fly

Note the larval stage. Known as rat-tailed maggots the larval stage is aquatic feeding on detritus, and the 'rat-tail' is a breathing tube.
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