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Robber fly (Asilidae)

Photomacrograph of the head of a robber fly (Asilidae). Robber flies are also called assassin flies and are found around the world often in dry, sunny habitats. They are opportunistic predators and the adults feed on a variety of other arthropods such as wasps, bees, dragonflies, grasshoppers, other flies, and some spiders. Two prominent compound eyes (for accurate perception of movement) are visi…

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Creator

  • Macroscopic Solutions

Subject

  • Morphology
  • Fly
  • Flies
  • Predator
  • Yellow
  • Green
  • Black

Creator

  • Macroscopic Solutions

Subject

  • Morphology
  • Fly
  • Flies
  • Predator
  • Yellow
  • Green
  • Black

Providing institution

  • Wellcome Collection

Aggregator

  • Wellcome Collection

Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)

  • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

User generated content

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Rights

  • Credit: Macroscopic Solutions

Source

  • B0010391

Identifier

  • B0010391
  • n336tz88

Providing country

  • United Kingdom

Collection name

  • 9200579_Ag_UK_WellcomeCollection_IIIF

Timestamp created

  • 2019-06-09T11:40:29.318Z

Timestamp updated

  • 2019-06-09T11:40:29.318Z