Munjua erugataAnother one of the larger beeflies. There are so many this year of different Bombyliidae genera, tiny minuscule ones to large. In this location, this seemed to be plentiful and we watched them gather sand and move/fly/hover around near the ground. Despite their size, other smaller insects chase them away.
Wikipedia tells us"The larval stages are predators or parasitoids of other insect eggs and larvae. The adult females usually deposit eggs in the vicinity of possible hosts, quite often in the burrows of beetles or wasps/solitary bees. Where most often in the insect world parasitoids are highly specific in the host species that they will infect, some bombyliids are opportunistic and will use a variety of hosts.While bombyliids have a great variety of species, rarely are individuals of any one species abundant, and this is perhaps one of the poorest known families of insects relative to its size. There are at least 4,500 described species, and probably thousands as of yet undescribed."