Hedriodiscus binotatus
I was really excited to find this fly because it was GREEN. I thought from the looks of it that it would be a
deer fly but it's a Soldier Fly. Soldier flies eat just about anything in the larval stage. They visit flowers as
adults and this one had the misfortune of being caught in a spider web. It was kind of dangling there so I fished
it out and set in on these buds. Someone told me they can act lethargic and this one was doing that because I
know it was alive. It did finally fly off. They get their name from their striped outfits--like army uniforms.
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