This female
Ocyptamus fuscipennis was hovering around a single dock (
Rumex) along a ditch near my back yard. It perched occasionally, but briefly, to oviposit. The larvae are carnivorous, and in the adjacent shot you can see the prey--aphids. (Here it paused to oviposit.) I was going to try to watch for the larvae, but the plant got weed-whacked a couple of days later--not by me. (Unfortunate, but the weed-whacking is necessary to keep the ditch from becoming a choked mass of saplings.)
