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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.[1][2] The name "robber flies" reflects their expert predatory habits; they feed mainly or exclusively on other insects and, as a rule, they wait in ambush and catch their prey in flight.

Stabs their prey and sucks their insides out through a straw. Metal as fuck.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

they feed mainly or exclusively on other insects and, as a rule, they wait in ambush and catch their prey in flight.

Reminds me of dragonflies. Had one of those bros snatch a horse fly that was harassing me right out of the sky in front of me. So cool.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah, I remember from back when I was in band camp, our practice field had an aerial battle of dragon flies snatching all the sweat bees out of the air above us.