


Here's a Belvosia Fly that was hanging out near a pond in Nogales. It's also known as the Butterbutt Fly for fairly obvious reasons.
Nogales Arizona



Nogales Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
From my found slide collection
This needs to happen daily in random parts of town
The leafcutter gals are taking advantage of the 1/4" accommodations that I have provided
Today's backyard visitor is a cuckoo leafcutter bee. She makes her living as a solitary kleptoparasitic bee which lays her eggs in the nest of, you guessed it, leafcutter bees. When her young hatch, they consume the pollen stash and sometimes the leafcutter bee eggs.
Found this little gal digging a hole near some native plants I recently plopped into the ground. If the Google is to be believed, she is a sand wasp and her goal is to dig a hole, stuff it full of flies, and then lay an egg. I'm all for it.
From my found slide collection.