The world is full of robber flies—approximately 7,000 species have been recognized worldwide and 1,000 are native to North America. All robber flies are predators on insects and have two wings, ...

Aggressive, carnivorous, cannibalistic — all terms that can be used to describe the robber fly. More than 1,000 different types of robber flies (family Asilidae) live around North America, and ...

THIS GORGEOUS, COLOURFUL robber fly was spotted resting in the garden of AG reader Greg Rochester from Grange, Queensland, who took the opportunity to take this magnificent photograph. “This little ...

The robber flies were presented with a moving target in the form of a small silver-colored reflective bead being pulled along a transparent fishing line with pulleys and a stepper motor.

The robber fly Holcocephala is a relatively small fly -- at 6mm in length, it is similar in size of the average mosquito. Yet it has the ability to spot and catch prey more than half a metre away ...

OK, I have decided to create #Worldrobberflyday.All the time now, we hear that this large mammal or that large mammal has a 'day', and that got me thinking. Buglife have an invertebrate of the month, ...

Cannibal fly is a colloquialism applied to robber flies in the genus Promachus. They’re big, beefy insects, and you won’t miss one if it comes near.

The mid-air hunting strategy of a tiny fly the size of a grain of rice has been revealed by an international team of scientists. Holcocephala, a species of robber fly, is able to intercept and ...