It's kinda cute!
At least, it looks like a fuzzy mosquito to me. It hopped up and down in the air like a flea several times before zeroing in on a different aster flower. It hunched over the flowers just like mosquitos on my arms/legs/neck/ankles always do.
Doesn't it look like a mosquito to you? But it sips like a bee, hops like a flea, I'm sounding like Ali....
If you know what it is, I'd like to find out. Also, check out the mysterious Gray Spotted Bee. I haven't gotten a positive ID on it yet.
Don't mosquitos live off of sucking blood? Hopefully not mine though.
I don't know what that is.....but I'm sure at some point someone in my zoology class had it pinned to a felt background :)
Whatever it is, don't upset it!
Great photograph though!
Likely some sort of bee; there are many varieties and some look like flies. Speaking of mosquitoes, only the female bites. She needs an enzyme that occurs in mammal blood to become fertile.
Robin- It does look like a mosquito but the body looks to big, I think it is a fly of some sort and a great shot!
VB ;o)
Some steroids that mosquito is on. :) I think it's a bee. :)
Either way, I wouldn't distract it.
Robin
Another one of your great insect photos. thanks for sharing them . Oh ...he/she/it is cute!
Robin when I first started reading my first thought was that Robin has lost it. Fuzzy mosquito's, they hop up and down, I thought you would tell us it was some kind of ceremonial dance your mosquito was having. I tend to think it was just a drunk bee of somekind zoning in on that aster. Maybe its a new breed.
Robin, not sure what it is, it is sort of cute, but I am not well versed in flying insects so I won't guess!
Howdy there Robin
Did a search for Mosquito Bee, and came up with a photo on flickr, of one in New Jersey. It looks a bit different, than yours.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wlazaro/3638407027
You sure did get a mighty fine look-en photo of it.
Some of you seem to be panicking. You are not in danger, though. The mysterious critter is not that big (the photo is five-six times larger than life), and didn't show any interest in my blood, just the flowers' nectar.