Adapted lenses allow the tiny robber fly to see like a much larger predator, helping it carry out sophisticated aerial attacks. | Scientific American

The Asilidae are the robber fly family, also called assassin flies. They are powerfully built, bristly flies with a short, stout proboscis enclosing the sharp, sucking hypopharynx. The name "robber flies" reflects their expert predatory habits; they feed mainly or exclusively on other insects and, as a rule, they wait in ambush and catch their prey in flight. In general, the family attacks a very wide range of prey, including other flies, beetles, butterflies and moths, various bees, ants, drago

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