Yard Critter of the Week - Flower Fly

While photographing the Eastern Blue-eyed Grass (which is really yellow-eyed!) I was photobombed by this fly, a wasp mimic.

The Flower Fly, Toxomerus marginatus, seen appropriately on flower.

This is a doubly good insect to have in your yard as the adults, as shown, are pollinators, and the larvae prey on garden pests. The proverbial "win-win".

Flower Flies are rather small, the size of a flower petal (or sepal!), and thus easy to overlook. If this one hadn't landed on the flower as I was taking the picture I wouldn't even know they exist.

Serendipity for sure.

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