Oh no! It’s a Robber!
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007Well, we have a new visitor to the garden, this is the first time I’ve seen this thing here and I wasn’t sure about getting this close to him, or is that her?
I thought it was some kind of mutated dragonfly, you know, orange groves all around, pesticides… mutation? But after searching for about 3 hours for a name, I finally found it… Robber Fly!
I’m still going through tons of images and information so that I can narrow it down even further. I do know that it is a female though!
These things are, uhm, creepy. When they fly they sound like a giant mosquito, buzzing. One of the things that fascinated me though was, even though they may look big, this one was probably about an inch and half long. I hope it decides to come back so that I can capture better images, but what I got will have to satisfy my curiosity for now. :)
Robber Fly Asilidae