Hanging out for lunch
by Arthur Sevestre
Arthropods
Keywords: insect, robber fly, dance fly, fly, prey, predator, hang, eat
A dance fly of the Empis genus. It has just caught a small fly and is dining of it now. I found the way it is haning by just one leg and holding the prey with the other five very special. You can see how it sticks its proboscis in the prey to suck it empty.
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