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Re-tagging since I don't think it worked properly the first time.

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(Don't think it tagged properly the first time.)

And here's the ##otter! ##mustelid ##photography ##nature ##wildlifephotography

Flew past me as I was looking at an otter. I don't think the bird realized I was there at first, as it seemed like it was going to land near there originally...

I'd recognize that face anywhere - that's not a bee, that's a drone fly (genus Eristalis), a kind of hover fly! Most likely Eristalis tenax, the common drone fly. They're honey bee mimics.

Nice shot. Looks like Popillia japonica, Japanese beetle. Introduced to North America (and Europe, more recently) and considered a pest, such as of roses. Keep an eye out for small white eggs laid on its pronotum - that's a tachinid fly parasite introduced to control the beetle!

https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pica_pica

and another few pages above that, Hulst (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...; a minor character mentioned in Smith's controversy) delivers an absolute beatdown on another entomologist's work, using "We fail to see" three times and accusing him of iconoclasm. www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10062187

Interestingly, when I first saw his name, I was reading him detailing another taxonomic controversy, several years prior to his own controversy (source www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10062190)

I just came across another taxonomist known for controversy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Be...
'Smith even wrote to Dyar "If you object that I am allowing personal consideration to retard scientific knowledge I will plead guilty."'

congrats, you found a moth fly, aka drain fly! (family Psychodidae)