Robber Fly or Assassin Fly Family: Asilidae
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Phil Degginger / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
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8688 x 5792 px | 73.6 x 49 cm | 29 x 19.3 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
19 June 2018More information:
The Asilidae are the robber fly family, also called assassin flies. They are powerfully built, bristly flies with a short, stout proboscis enclosing the sharp, sucking hypopharynx. The name "robber flies" reflects their notoriously aggressive predatory habits; they feed mainly or exclusively on other insects and, as a rule, they wait in ambush and catch their prey in flight.