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Could anybody please I.D. this insect .Flying in garden yesterday The second shot shows his hairy rear end.
 

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It's a tachinid fly. The black legs and distinctive dorsal stripe I believe make it Nowickia ferox. N. ferox is a parasitoid of the Dark Arches moth.
 
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