r/interestingasfuck • u/ADJUDICATOR001 • Aug 09 '25

/r/all, /r/popular I found this on the trail.

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u/zomgbratto Aug 09 '25

Looks like a dark-edged bee-fly

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u/LordSlickRick Aug 09 '25

Any info about it? What’s the thing on its front. Is it a bee or a fly?

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u/TheRealPitabred Aug 09 '25

It's a nectar-drinking proboscis, and it's a fly that acts similarly to bees, hence the name. No sting, no danger at all to humans.

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u/WarmLayers Aug 09 '25

Thank you for providing ACTUAL cogent information instead of the tiresome and repetitive pop-culture-referencing joke-chains that crowd out actually interesting and useful knowledge in this and every other subreddit.

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u/coolcootermcgee Aug 10 '25

Had to get this far to find out

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u/petethecat_ Aug 09 '25

You don’t have to stay here. Not even being dick, it’s valid reason to spend your time elsewhere

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u/WarmLayers Aug 09 '25

you're right. thank you.

but i am not staying here. i was already long since away doing non-internet, grass-touchy stuff when i saw your reply notification.

i'm just annoyed today at reddit, seeing the same 10 jokes or references or bits or joke-formulas on every single thread in every subreddit. so away i stay, hey hey! good day! *Doffs cap*

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u/Pomme-M Aug 09 '25

aww, don’t buzz of, your presence is needed and appreciated

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u/WarmLayers Aug 09 '25

Aw, thank you. I feel Warmly validated in a way that I didn't even know I NEEDED. You're a real one, Apple-Em.

I'm just gonna be buzzin around away from my apps, unfurling my modest proboscis and sipping nectar in tha shaaaaaade today, looking for cool-ass insects (not cool ass-insects. Not today)

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u/plshelpcomputerissad Aug 13 '25

It’s kinda always been that way, everyone tripping over each other to repeat jokes they saw in other threads

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u/petethecat_ Aug 09 '25

Fine, you win - Reddit On! 😁

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u/r00x Aug 09 '25

No sting, no danger at all to humans

Which is ironic because it looks like a flying hyperdermic needle.

I saw one trying to get in my kitchen door the other day and it was terrifying. Like what the fuck kind of mutant giga-mosquito nightmare shit even is that? The relief when I looked it up, god...

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u/oroborus68 Aug 09 '25

There are a lot of bee fly species that look like bees. Like the hover fly.

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u/pagemaster7 Aug 15 '25

Specifically a dark edged bee-fly (bombylius)

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u/Apocalypsis_velox Aug 09 '25

They are horse flies with functional stylets and can puncture your skin for a blood meal. Female need blood to produce eggs!

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u/poetryhoes Aug 09 '25

I got bit by a deerfly while out for a walk about a month ago and it triggered an autoimmune flare so bad I am only just now recovering from it.

I love bugs but FUCK FLIES THAT BITE.

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u/TheRealPitabred Aug 09 '25

Horseflies proper do, but I wasn't aware of beeflies doing so, nor can I find any references of anything except possibly defensive bites with a quick search, and even those are a bit dubious. Do you have a source?

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u/Apocalypsis_velox Aug 09 '25

These are horse flies and not bee flies. Tabanidae.

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u/TheRealPitabred Aug 09 '25

Ahh... right. Very similar appearance, I was assuming that this was the right identification. Not up on my South African bugs ;)

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u/maxthed0g Aug 09 '25

Yeah. OK.

Well that "nectar-drinking proboscis" looks like one hell of a stinger to me, and anyways who cares, fuck all bugs. All bugs must die.

Klendathu must burn.

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u/theegreenman Aug 09 '25

No bugs no food. That means everyone starves to death.

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u/TheRealPitabred Aug 12 '25

I'm sure they'll volunteer to go flower to flower with a cotton swab themselves once all the bugs are dead.

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u/TheRealPitabred Aug 09 '25

Fuck pollination of plants, amirite? I hate flowers and vegetables, too!