is there an entomologist in the house?

I know this as a "bee fly". Is it Bombylius major? What else might it be?

As to the other things I've asked your advice on recently: I cut down a lot of the weeds, but none of the phlox; I haven't heard from the weed police again, but I don't know whether my work was acceptable or they haven't done the checkup yet.

I have not succeeded in transposing the storytelling to a form anyone else can view, but I have not quite given up.