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Family of flies, the bee flies, so called because they resemble bees.
http://crawford.tardigrade.net/bugs/BugofMonth19.html
Article about flies of the genus Bombylius and their parasitic relations with bees in the Seattle, Washington area.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombyliidae
Information from Wikipedia on this family of bee flies, the larvae of which are parasitoids of other insects.
http://bugguide.net/node/view/185/bgpage
Photographs of flies in this family found in North America, provided by BugGuide.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poecilanthrax_willistoni
Information from Wikipedia on the sand dune bee fly which resembles a bee in appearance.
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