Meet, no, not a soccer player, but Pelle the Pellucid Fly at the park. I'd first wondered if it might be a black bumble bee but then realized it had only two wings, not four. So it was a hoverfly, not an actual bee...but I'd never seen a fly this big before! I'd been photographing roly polys, butterflies, turtles, damselflies at the Irrigation Ditch when I saw Pelle on a nearby bush, and decided to take a picture of it too to check what it was after I got home.
There has been another hoverfly who comes to the Irrigation Ditch to listen to stories; I wonder if Pelle will join him now?
