Skippers and Grabbers Play The Mating Game

Lovely to see so many skipper butterflies flitting about. I spotted this pair of small skippers mating near a clump of knapweed.

Later on I photographed these ferruginous bee-grabbers in the same place. The females of these Conopid, thick-headed flies lay their eggs in the abdomens of bumble bees.  

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