A Dark-edged Bee-fly basking in the Spring sun, showing its massive proboscis, adapted for drinking nectar from flowers, like a humming bird.

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Size: 5200px × 3467px
Location: Herefordshire, England, UK
Photo credit: © Evan Bowen-Jones / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: anatomy, basking, bathing, bee-fly, biodiversity, bombylius, british, close, close-, dark-edged, england, feeding, herefordshire, insect, macro, major, mouthparts, nature, pollinator, portrait, proboscis, specialised, spring, sun, sunning, uk, wildlife