Best viewed in Original.

You'd be forgiven for thinking this is a wasp, but it is not. It is a case of remarkable mimicry in the insect world. This is in fact, a FLY! Mimicing a wasp, a yellowjacket, must provide it with some protection from would-be predators. It is nectaring on goldenrod.

If you look closely, you can see it does not have the 'wasp waist' so many wasps have, and its antennae are much shorter than those of wasps, and its eyes are quite a different shape.