Cone-snout Bee Fly

Conophorus fenestratus · Order: Diptera · Family: Bombyliidae

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Cone-snout Bee Fly
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The cone-snout bee fly has clear wings marked with a black vein pattern. It lives in the western United States from Washington down to Arizona and also in Baja California Sur, Mexico.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

Its wings are transparent and show a black veined pattern.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it is found in the US

Recorded in 5 of 51 states and DC. Most records: California, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon.

Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.

Source: GBIF

Status: native in North America. Source: iNaturalist

Months it is reported in the US

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Source: GBIF

More photos

Cone-snout Bee Fly photo 2
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Cone-snout Bee Fly photo 3
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Cone-snout Bee Fly photo 4
Photo: David Anderson, CC BY
Cone-snout Bee Fly photo 5
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Same family (Bombyliidae)

Greater Bee FlyGreater Bee FlyBombylius majorHarmlessTiger Bee FlyTiger Bee FlyXenox tigrinusBlack Banded Bee FlyBlack Banded Bee FlyHemipenthes morioSinuous Bee FlySinuous Bee FlyHemipenthes sinuosusAnthracite Bee-FlyAnthracite Bee-FlyAnthrax anthraxHemipenthes mauraHemipenthes maura

Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conophorus_fenestratus

Look it up elsewhere: GBIF · iNaturalist · BugGuide · ITIS · Wikipedia

Text written 2026-10-25 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-25.

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