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Black and blue flying insect with furry head (Giant robber fly)

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Thanks...
by: Ingrid

Thanks for all the input — I've learned something new!
He was one of the strangest-looking insects I've seen in a while...
yep its a robber fly
by: bennie

i took some last and this year ...just magnificent pic ...


bennie
Giant robber fly
by: Moni

Ingrid
With that large of a robber fly it may have been the giant robber fly genus Promachus. The adults are predators on bees and wasps.
They have a tiger-striped abdomen. And it is probably a female with the long narrow point of the abdomen.
Robber flies are predatory on other insects. The adults lay eggs in soil or plants where the larvae eat other insects and their eggs in decaying matter.
These flies are found thru out eastern US east of the rockies and into the southwestern states.

Robber Fly
by: Anonymous

The insect in your picture looks like a Robber Fly.

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