To any diptera or hymenoptera systematists out there:
 
I was playing around with my new GUI account (whoa-- and I thought the
internet was fun _before_ I could see the graphics 8-) looking for an
image of a calliphorid (found one elsewhere) and came across the following
URL:
 
 http://www.life.uiuc.edu/Entomology/insecthtmls/gifs/diptera.gif
 
which is labelled as showing various diptera.  For those of you with
browsers who'd care to take a look, am I mistaken or is that not a
honeybee pupa shown on the left immediately below the close-up frontal
view of a (muscid?) fly face?  Looks an awful lot like the drawings I've
done myself of bee pupae except that the cocoon is awfully prominent--
maybe it's supposed to be a cut-away view of a dipteran puparium but that
sure looks a lot like the subject has a propodeum-- which would rule it
out as a dipteran.  Maybe "Lar of the Flies" or someone would like to take a
look...
 
BTW if it were a honeybee the natural orientation of the pupa is with the
ventral side up (back resting against the "floor" of its cell).
 
Merry Xmas from Manti Claws,
 
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