Any entomologists here?

[Racing roadkill]

I’ve just got back from a ride, and this thing landed on me. Does anyone know what it is?

It’s a funny looking flying thing, a bit like a bee, but much smaller, and with strange coloured wings, that don’t stop flapping, even when it lands. I reckon it’s an illegal immigrant, it’s here to take our jobs, or maybe an alien of some description.

 

[Spiderweb]

It’s a moth wearing a furry gilet!

 

[Drago]

Pterodactyl?

Vincent Price?

 

[biggs682]

Looks like a Horse fly

 

[ColinJ]

It’s a moth wearing a furry gilet!

A moth-er fur-ker?

 

[numbnuts]

The large bee-fly, Bombylius major

 

[Heltor Chasca]

The large bee-fly, Bombylius major

That’s where my money is too. Also known as the dark edged bee-fly.

 

[welsh dragon]

It is an ugly looking thing whatever it is.

 

[stephec]

It is an ugly looking thing whatever it is.

You should hear what it said about you.

 

[welsh dragon]

You should hear what it said about you.

I can imagine. . It's still bloody fugly.....

 

[Lullabelle]

Looks like a moth.

 

[Racing roadkill]

Is it foreign, it was buzzing with a distinct foreign accent.

 

[theclaud]

Harmless. But that won't stop @rich p getting in a flap. Nobody show him the picture!

 

[postman]

Hello daddy beefly dear.You have been out a long time.Yes Wife beefly dear.You will not believe the day i have had.There i was on this beautiful day ,resting on a leaf in that wonderful country lane where we met,do you remember that night.Anyway along came one of those tractor things,what a draft it caused,it dragged me off the leaf and up into the air.Well next thing i know i am stuck on the jersey of one of those funny things with two wheels and a wheezy human being.Well i can't get off i'm stuck,and this human thing has taken me for miles and miles .He then stops,sees me and freaks out,screams,gets a glass and traps me in it.Then he takes a photo of me,while i am gasping for breath,it was hot inside that jam jar.Anyway the human let me out of the kitchen window,i fell into the grass and i needed ten mins to come round.It took me ages to fly back.

 

[Racing roadkill]

That’s definitely it though, the odd pattern on the wings gave it away.