What is this?


Ok Ok - identifying bugs via the Internet is as useless as identifying illnesses via the Internet.
Let's just say I tried the bug identification anyway.
;-)

Internet says this a Bee Fly or a Zigzag Bee.
????

Do you have any idea what it is? It's wings were super-interesting - transparent but with a pattern. It had fly-type eyes and measured about 2" across…...



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