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  1. TomM

    Your opinion? Garden Assassin

    One of the gardens alpha predators!
  2. ChanPaul

    Your opinion? Assassin Fly aka Robber Fly

    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...
  3. MinitecaPhotographie

    Your opinion? Little robber fly

    Here is a photo made yesterday evening of a little (15mm long) robber fly Asilidae found in my garden. Here we are at a rendered of 3:1 magnification ratio. Handheld single shot of course.
  4. Greg Shchepanek

    Your opinion? Robber Fly

    Robber Fly (Cyrtopogon falto) with prey at Alleyn-et-Cawood, Québec, Canada. Panasonic DMC-ZS30 • ƒ/3.3 4.3 mm 1/100 100 Flash (off, did not fire)