This Friday it's a short content day for me. Had to do some stuff in the morning. Now is afternoon and I have things to do in the city. A couple of places and a couple of people to visit. So I'll post only a couple of old photographs.
It's great to have a storage filled with insects on a day like this. Here you can see a robber fly (Asilidae family). Quite a few very similar, almost identical-looking species that share the same habitats are present in the area, so I can't tell you which one exactly is this.
But it's a robber fly, that's for sure. These flies attack their prey by stabbing it with the strong, short proboscis, injecting the victim with saliva containing enzymes which very rapidly paralyze the victim and soon digest the insides. The robber fly then sucks the liquefied material through the proboscis.
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The second protagonist of this short post it's the Myopa dorsalis, a fly from the Conopidae family. The adults of this species feed on the nectar. I encounter them on a wide variety of flowers that grow on sunny open terrains near the sea.
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Here you can see the same kind of fly on the fluffy seeds of some dandelion-like plant that I wasn't able to identify.
AND THAT'S IT. AS ALWAYS IN THESE POSTS ON HIVE, THE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE MY WORK.