Large bee, any ideas on ID?

[Spectrum2020]

Any ideas what the attached might be??

Looks more like a large bee than anything else, abdomen looked like smooth fur with a rounded bottom

Quite large, bigger than a bumblebee and bigger than the blackberries as shown in the pic.

 

[pargyle]

Hornet mimic hoverfly I think ....

 

[polomadh]

I had a European hornet starting to nest in an empty nuc this year. After relocating some distance from the apiary I saw one of these, which is a hornet mimic hover fly. Not having seen either before I thought it was a remarkable coincidence that the hoverfly is in the same location as the real thing.

 

[ericbeaumont]

Volucella zonaria.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Looks more like a large bee

Correct answer from the others
Large eyes meeting in the middle and one pair of wings will identify this as not a bee but a fly.

 

[Tony Slater]

And of course 2 wings, as flies have, rather than 4 wings, as bees, wasps and hornets have.