"Assassin" (Asilidae)
Nicolas Reusens©
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Parc Natural del Montseny
Seems like I´m improving my stacking performance and now I´m able to take more and more pictures of my subjects. This is a handheld stack of 9 pictures with the Canon 7D II and my Twin Flash with DIY diffusers.
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.
The fly attacks its prey by stabbing it with its short, strong proboscis injecting the victim with saliva containing neurotoxic and proteolytic enzymes which very rapidly paralyze the victim and soon digest the insides; the fly then sucks the liquefied material through the proboscis.
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