Natural History Photographs


Bombylius major
Authority:Linnaeus 1758
Nederlands:Gewone wolzwever
English:large bee-fly, dark-edged bee-fly
Deutsch:Große Wollschweber
Svenska:Stor svävfluga
Français:grand bombyle
Amstelveen, the Netherlands; 17 - 24 April 2010.
Slenaken (Zuid-Limburg), the Netherlands; 5 May 2007. Female picking up dirt from forest track,
a behaviour also seen in Anthrax trifasciatus, Lomatia spec. and Villa hottentotta.