{"id":5488,"date":"2014-03-03T13:50:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T18:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/?p=5488"},"modified":"2014-03-03T13:50:05","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T18:50:05","slug":"robber-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/robber-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"Robber Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last summer we were visiting family in Southern MD when I had a chance to get up close and personal with a “Creepy Cutie<\/a>” I shared on the blog in August.<\/p>\n

As I was photographing that personality-filled praying mantis<\/a> a huge insect flew up and landed on the table behind me. \u00a0I was able to grab just a couple frames before it flew off again. \u00a0I had no idea what it was but part of “Exploring Local” is exploring the plants and animals around us as well as the places to sightsee. \u00a0So I posted it on FB, enlisted the help of my fb friends and started googling.<\/p>\n

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The closest I found for identification was a photo posted by another blogger<\/a>, Steve Willson,\u00a0on his blog “Blue Jay Barrens”\u00a0which looks very much the same as this one only from a slightly different angle. \u00a0His fly is even holding the exact same prey.<\/p>\n

He identifies it as a Robber Fly and it is eating a green stink bug.<\/p>\n

Here’s the wikipedia link for the robber fly<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I was a bit disappointed to discover they don’t seem to prey on the brown ones ;).<\/p>\n

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Last summer we were visiting family in Southern MD when I had a chance to get up close and personal with a “Creepy Cutie” I shared on the blog in August. As I was photographing that personality-filled praying mantis a huge insect flew up and landed on the table behind me. \u00a0I was able to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,11,371,300],"tags":[831,828,294,827,451,829,830],"class_list":["post-5488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-nature","category-photo-share","category-portraiture","tag-assassin-bug","tag-fly","tag-insect","tag-predator","tag-prey","tag-robber","tag-robber-fly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5490,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5488\/revisions\/5490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}