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Flower Fly - Rhingia nasica - male
Copyright © 2008 kyeager

Flower Fly - Rhingia nasica - Male
Emmaus, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, USA
August 23, 2008
Size: Under One Inch
Looks like a fly, but appears to be taking nectar from flower.
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Contributed by kyeager on 1 January, 2009 - 11:23am
Last updated 1 January, 2009 - 2:27pm

Rhingia nasica, male (PA)
Note the long "snout".
… Matthias Buck, 1 January, 2009 - 2:27pm login or register to post comments

Pretty sure it's a syrphid
But I'm not familiar with eastern species and can't make out the wing veins. (A thing called a spurious vein makes it a syrphid.) They're also called hover flies and, yes, flower flies. My best guess is that it's in the subfamily Eristalinae, so you may want to browse there. It may be Eumerus. Give a look here: http://bugguide.net/node/view/12620

Oh, and it's a male, as the eyes touch at the top.
… Ron Hemberger, 1 January, 2009 - 12:10pm login or register to post comments

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