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[–] Paraponera_clavata@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago (6 children)
[–] AFLYINTOASTER@lemmy.world 38 points 2 years ago (5 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.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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