Robberfly - Family Asilidae, Subfamily Asilinae

I rescued this robberfly from drowning in a bird bath. It stood on my fingers for a few minutes afterwards while it recovered enough to fly away.

Habitat: Rural yard

comments (4)

Flown Kimmerling

Lion

Awww! I'm sure it was very thankful! Posted 5 years ago
1. Christine Young
  
  Lion
  
  It seemed grateful, especially considering it didn't try to bite me <3 Posted 5 years ago, modified 5 years ago

Ferdy Christant

Lion

Nice, now it can go on and suck the guts out of other insects again :) Posted 5 years ago
1. Christine Young
  
  Lion
  
  I imagine that it has enjoyed many insect smoothies in the past few days. Posted 5 years ago

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