bee fly

(Villa lateralis)

Photo by Alfredo Colon

IUCN Red List

not listed

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N5 - Secure

Minnesota

not listed


	Taxonomy
	Order	Diptera (gnats, mosquitoes, true flies)
	Suborder	Brachycera (circular-seamed flies, mouches muscoïdes, muscoid flies, short-horned flies)
	Infraorder	Muscomorpha
	Superfamily	Asiloidea
	Family	Bombyliidae (bee flies)
	Subfamily	Anthracinae
	Tribe	Villini
	Genus	Villa

	Synonyms
	Anthrax lateralis

	Common Names
	This genus has no common name. The common name of the family Bombyliidae is bee flies, and is applied here for convenience.


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Alfredo Colon



Jessie

these are hatching from my front door. There appears to be a large some other insect also in the door, but no longer fits through the tiny holes. It's creepy, but I got a shot of one of the bee flies.


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Alfredo Colon 8/22/2019	Location: Woodbury, MN

Jessie 7/3/2016	Location: Rochester, MN Olmsted County these are hatching from my front door. There appears to be a large some other insect also in the door, but no longer fits through the tiny holes. It's creepy, but I got a shot of one of the bee flies.

John Valo 7/31/2016	One of our viewers (pinners?) on Pinterest commented: “Antennae appears to long for a fly”.

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