Bumblebee, fly or solitary?

Some interesting web pages on bee-fly from the Natural History Museum

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2011/april/bee-mimic-flies-in-to-a-garden-near-you96805.html

And from Hymettus on the flower bee (which does look very similar to a bumblebee)

http://hymettus.org.uk/downloads/Info_sheets_2010/Anthophora_plumipes_infosheet.pdf

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