As some of you may know, there are two families of flies that mimic bees and perform some of their pollinating functions. These are the families Bombyliidae and Syrphidae. The flies in the images below are in Syrphidae.
At first I thought the fly below was a yellow jacket, but it turned out to be Eristalis transversa, one of the bee flies. As you can see, this fly is quite large, almost the size of a honeybee. It is feeding on a black-eyed susan where a daddy-long-legs lies in wait. The latter did not move at all the whole time that the fly was crawling around on the flower.