Bee-flies – not dangerous unless you’re a solitary bee
We’ve written a fair bit about our love for – and the importance of – insects on this site. Their populations are collapsing globally though, and while we may not be able to do much about the over-use of pesticides by the agricultural industry, if we’re lucky enough to have a garden we can at least do something to look after the insects that live right next to us. Not killing them because we’re not sure what they are is a good start…Which brings us to a strange, fast-flying insect which makes an appearance in gardens all over southern Britain at this time of the year, triggering a flurry of online identification requests and letters to newspapers: the bee-fly.
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