This extremely wet bee fly is yet another rescue from my landlord's pool. (Happily, it dried off and flew away in good health.) I have many photos of bee flies, but this is actually my first attempt to get an ID to species. I looked through ALL of the representative species in the Guide from California and I am thinking that this must be Villa later*alis or something very close anyway. However, the markings are a bit hard to discern because the bee is so wet and/or the colors may have been altered by the pool, so I could definitely use an expert opinion on this one... (Ron, are you out there?)