A robber fly (Asilidae) with another fly it has just captured. |
Friday, September 20, 2013
It's a fly eat fly world too
Spiders eat spiders. Spiders eat flies. So far, no surprise. But did you know that there are some flies that eat other flies?
These predatory flies are commonly --and rather euphemistically -- called "robber flies". Robber flies (Asilidae) snatch flies and other insects in flight, inject them with a mixture of paralyzing and digesting enzymes, and then consume the liquefied remains. Thus, they are also referred to by some by the more appropriate name "assassin flies".
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