Eristalis tenax is a honeybee mimic, look out for its vertical eye stripe (see below) and inflated back leg, which looks like a honeybee’s pollen basket (observable in the short clip below). This species also has black ‘feet’ unlike E. pertinax the other Lagoon-dwelling drone fly, whose ‘feet’ are yellow.
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