what the hell is this?
A horse fly? a bee?
sucker landed by my feet, so I leaned over and thumped him
it occurred to me that I never saw anything like this before around here, so I got a baggie and rolled him up.
if this is a horse fly, I expect a bit would take about a pound of flesh lol. lookit at them legs, i thought it was a spider at first
I'm in Austin Texas fwiw
It's hard to tell how big it really is. What I do when I photograph insects is a put a dime in the photo too so as to be able to gauge the size by comparison to the object.
was it a little smaller than a regular bee? There were some things that looked like small bees in Canada that would bite you up real good but that is far from Texas.
about 3 times bigger than normal
everything's bigger in Texas
Looks a bit like a
bumblecarpenter bee.looks like either one, but I think you got it!