Life On A Quarter Acre

On my pillowcase

On snow, ~ 3 mm, 2 deg C

On wall in house

In compost

On hollyhock

On compost

On compost

On spruce stump, ~ 4 mm\r\n\r\nBugGuide ID

length 29 mm, 9 deg C, black light trap

Under brick, body length ~18 mm

On bathroom towel, 16 mm wingspan

Looks like it might be Eristalis dimidiata. But I\'m not sure. What do you think @edanko?

Closing up nest with resin in bee hotel.\nSeems to be using resin.

~ 1 cm\r\n\r\nunder weeds on paved driveway

On spruce stump, ~ 30 mm

On raspberry leaf

Caught leaving hole in spruce stump, 11 mm

Found on sidewalk, 35 mm

Examining holes in a spruce stump, ~ 10 mm

13 mm

With honey bee prey and a couple of flies hanging around

Garden weed

Found in old tennis shoe in storage

On grass in lawn. length ~ 1 cm

Caught leaving hole in spruce stump

Ovipositing in a spruce stump

~ 5 mm

flower diameter ~ 5 mm\r\nYard weed

BugGuide: \"The male\'s front tibiae are greatly expanded into shields. He covers the female\'s eyes with those things during mating. The plates don\'t blind her, but apparently filter light in such a way that she recognizes this is a male of her own ...

length 4 mm

~ 3 mm

On a parsley plant, ~ 10 mm

Inside the house. 4 mm

Netted from snowberry bush. 8 mm

Netted on a lilac bush, cooled, photographed, and released. 12 mm

Associated Species: Syringa vulgaris (Common Lilac)

On side of compost

3 mm. On screen door.

On a brick pathway. ~ 25 mm

These two have been sticking their heads out of their hole in my yard all morning.

~ 8mm

Under firewood. ~ 5mm

Captured running around on spruce stump. Cooled and photographed. 8 mm, 12 C.