Fly Day Friday
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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.
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 : )
... 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 ;)
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!
Decreased the aperture some so that I could more of the eyes in focus on this cloudy rainy day ... so the ISO went up and the shutter speed came down some.
Hand held macro.
Interesting just what this large fly with the bee body colors really is.
Mouche appartenant à la famille Rhinophoridae et de genre Stevenia, mais sans certitude.
Fly belonging to the family Rhinophoridae and of genus Stevenia, but without certainty.
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