If I brought one back, would you eat this? You know when a big, juicy, harmless, herbivore presents itself to the world with this type of coloration, there must be something that is deterring predators from completely annihilating its population.

I don’t know if this is a Syrphid (hoverfly), but it was certainly hovering.  Generally, Syrphids have some yellow-black patterning, but this individual lacked that generally obvious characteristic.  I only took two photographs of the fly, but both turned out kind of cool. 

A cropped copy of the the image above…