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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Bee Flies (Bombyliidae) » Bombyliinae » Bombyliini » Anastoechus
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ID for a bee fly? - Anastoechus
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ID for a bee fly? - Anastoechus
Bernard Field Station, Claremont, Los Angeles County, California, USA
October 26, 2020
This bee fly was spotted on the ground in area of recovering sage scrub mixed with non-native grasses. There is something with it that looks like a pupa or caterpillar. Is that its pupal case? Or something else? Is it unrelated to the bee fly and just there coincidentally?
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Contributed by nvhamlett@gmail.com on 26 October, 2020 - 4:47pm
Last updated 10 November, 2020 - 9:50pm

thing on the ground
looks like a beetle grub to me.
… Hartmut Wisch, 10 November, 2020 - 9:54pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, again!
It does, doesn't it. Just coincidental, I suppose.
… nvhamlett@gmail.com, 10 November, 2020 - 10:02pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Bee Flies.
… Hartmut Wisch, 10 November, 2020 - 9:50pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
Thanks, Hartmut! Any thoughts about the apparent caterpillar or pupal case that's with it?
… nvhamlett@gmail.com, 10 November, 2020 - 9:55pm login or register to post comments

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