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Robber Fly
also called assassin fly
(family Asilidae)
Robber flies are active sun-loving insects that prefer dry open areas:
fields, pastures, sandy places, openings or roads in woodlands, and
bushy country. Most of them are slender and streamlined, with a long
tapering abdomen, but one species is as big, bulky and hairy as a queen
bumblebee. Some are an inch and a half or more in length; others are
smaller and one kind is less than a half-inch long. The head is very
large with two great eyes, each containing several thousand separate
lenses, that provide remarkable vision enabling the robber fly to spot a
small insect at a considerable distance.
Underneath its bushy beard, the robber fly has a stout beak enclosing a
dagger-like shaft used to stab the victim in the head or thorax and inject
a fluid which kills it. This fluid, apparently, soon causes the victim's
"insides" to become liquid and the robber fly, on some favorite perch,
then proceeds to suck it dry, leaving nothing but an empty shell.
Make: NIKON CORPORATION
Model: NIKON D40X
Software: Paint Shop Pro Photo 11,20
Exposure Time: 625/100000 sec
F-Stop: f/8.0
ISO Speed Ratings: 100
Focal Length: 105/1 mm
Date Taken: 2008-06-21 10:58
Metering Mode: Pattern
File Size: 69 kb |
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Ciao Sergio,
spettacolare cattura, ottimi POV e composizione, splendido e delicato sfondo, ottima definizione nella parte a fuoco, perde un po' di nitidezza nella parte inferiore (probabilmente per la difficoltà di tenere l'insetto in asse), comunque una bellissima immagine.
Grazie e complimenti.
Maurizio
- GaryT
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This is a really good closeup with interesting content. Maybe it would have been more effective cropped vertically. Anyway, it deserves more than two points!. Gary
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