Please help identify the decedent. My son seems to be having a bug week. Today at work, he came upon this insect. He held it to the sky and noticed a almost transparent space between the thorax and abdomen of the insect. It did not appear to posses a stinger. We’d be interested in identifying the make and model of this bug.
Entomology, insects, Macro Photography, Nature, Oregon
Entomolgy/Bugs/Insects Question (Oregon)

this looks like a cross between a fly and a bee
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Apparently a “Window Fly” or Black Soldier Fly: http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2010/09/12/window-fly/, where would we be without Google?
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Wow…never heard of it and how interesting! Thanks Tim!
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It looks like what we call in Arkansas a sweat bee! 😄😄
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Wow that is an interesting feature on that bug. I’m sorry though because I have no clue whatsover what it is. He has the shape of something we call a dirt dauber but I doubt that’s what it is. N 🙂
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