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The Asilidae or Robber fly, also called assassin flies, are powerfully built, bristly flies with a short, stout proboscis enclosing the sharp, sucking hypopharynx. They are notoriously aggressive predators who feed mainly or exclusively on other insects ranging from other flies to beetles, butterflies. moths, various bees, ants, dragon and damselflies, ichneumon wasps, grasshoppers, and some spiders. As a rule they wait in ambush and catch their prey in flight.

I am indebted to leif_85 for identifying this insect for me.

Bee fly by - A N D R E W -

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It was a really cold and wet spring day when I found this Bee fly, so I think due to the cold it was very sluggish and allowed me to carry it over to a nearby flower. This gave a more colorful compo : )

just a fly by peter stockton

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on a bench in bristol . not brilliant but its a start into close ups :)

I Betcha ... by Ken Krach

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... Bet you that you wish it was summer again and I was buzzing and annoying you again and all dark and cold, and snowy here in winter ;)

Fly on White by Ken Krach

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House Fly by Satvinder Singh

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1.5 times macro using extension tube with a macro lens. No cropping done. As shot.

the fly by Richard lewis

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jeweled fly by Sharon Repton

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Not as focused on all the drops as I would have liked but this is the first time ive seen a fly with this many drops, like jewels!

Fly by Piotr Jasinski

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More photos Here

a banal fly but what a gorgeous makeup by Luana

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Brown Eyes in the Bokeh by Ken Krach

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Fly agaric by The Pocket Rocket

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Many thanks for your visits, kind comments and faves, very much appreciated.

swinging fly by Sharon Repton

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In Stoney wood

GREEN BOTTLENECK FLY by Wellington Pracz

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Fly Corpse by justin Str

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Fly on the Leaf in the Sun by Ken Krach

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Captured with the CPL filter on the macro lens.

BLUE BOTTLE FLY by Wellington Pracz

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Devouring by Ken Krach

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Fly by by Charlotte Hedman

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Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

― Leonardo da Vinci

Canon EF 24 - 105mm at 55mm

1/500 s

f4

ISO 100

Fly away... by Vangelis Tzertzinis

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Piraeus, Greece.

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boorvliegje by Agnes Van Parijs

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