this thing buzzed past me like a hummingbird and then sat on my raised bed wall for a while. the wood it's sitting on is roughly 1 inch wide. bug was about 2 inches long. what is?
Mydas fly?
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According to Seek, it is a clubbed mydas fly.
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Those are pretty cool. It looks like the adults are nectar feeders and larva predate grubs in dead logs/trees. They tend to be large with the biggest looking like this:
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