2006-10-13 3:32pm

 There are some times when luck is on your side, I cheated the odds for a begginer taking this detailed shot of what I had thought to be a small native bee at the time with my 5mp point and shoot panasonic camera. Months of curiosity later paid off when finding an ID. Not a bee at all but actually a fly! A hover fly, toxomerus sp. Which seemed to enjoy the pollen of this cactus flower in our shade house.