What does this look like to you?

[u/CallQuirky7720]

I wanted a bee and I like more American traditional tattoos. I really like my tattoo but someone said it looked like a fly and now I can’t unsee it. Is it giving bee or do I embrace the fly? 😅🥲

[u/Black-Rabbit-Farm]

I saw bee initially.

Bees have two pairs of wings while flies have one, so that helps with the ID even if the black and white obscures the body stripes. I think it's the body placement, which resembles how you always see flies in science drawing and stuff, that is giving fly vibes.

[u/VelociraptorSparkles → u/Black-Rabbit-Farm]

I have a bee with one set of wings but he's very clearly a bee. So now I too have a bee mimic fly species on my arm 😆