After 1,000 observations here the subspecies is still not a default ID suggestion
Caught later behaving like a hummingbird doing some hovering
Second on the same shrub as the previous
Note to self: Take care of that plant
Found inside Calochortus splendens flower.
Dark saddled hover fly on a mustard flower.
(CPP entomology xc)
Mixed hardwood disturbed area. Victim of pesticide spraying.
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male and female?
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On Cotton-batting plant
on California goldfields