Happy Fly-day!

False bee killer robberfly
(Promachus bastardii)

Camouflaging itself as though it was an ordinary nodule of this trumpet vine, after a Chicago rain storm in July.

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Hybos culiciformis from local woods in Devon earlier this year; lots of females on low vegetation in the sun (the one day we had some; it seems like it anyway) dipteraid.co.uk #hybotidae #predatoryflies #dipteraimaging #dipteraidservices