An Unusual Bee

I captured a photo of this bee which had landed on a bowl full of my heirloom tomatoes I was attempting to photograph one day. His stinger was too fat to fit into any of the tomatoes' pores. This was one frustrated bee.

Have any of you seen anything like this? This little bee appears to be wearing a black mask over his face, like the masks used by people who do welding....

I caught this bee, and I have him in a jar labeled with this picture. I'm still trying to find out what he is...

Comments

[sassyfras]

Donna, I posted on the site, but I thought I'd repeat myself here! This bug looks like a bee fly, which is actually a fly and not a bee at all. I left a link on 24/7 to a web site that might be able to tell you for sure. Good luck!