robber fly

[the black fox]

a first for me today on the walkway through the sand dunes ,a robber fly .hand held with the sigma sport
daylight robbery by jeff and jan cohen, on Flickr

[tesarver]

Re: robber fly

Not to bad Jeff

Tom

[the black fox]

Re: robber fly

thanks tom , didn't fancy getting any closer it looked a nasty bugger

[Parsen66]

Re: robber fly

It looks like it would give you nasty nip for sure !

[Stan]

Re: robber fly

good detail bearing in mind the lens used - even the big flies are really too small to shoot with a big lens and you can get much more detail using a macro lens as evidenced by my recent shots of the robber and horse flies in the macro section - mind you got to go with the lenses you have

didn't fancy getting any closer it looked a nasty bugger

quite harmless unlike the female horse flies which do bite

Stan

[the black fox]

Re: robber fly

As stated Stan never seen one before ,so obviously wary .and even if I had a macro lens I wouldn't have changed over in Sandy (dunes) environment

[Nathaniel]

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Should have requested Jan to hold it in her palm whilst you took the photograph or even done it vice versa!!!!!

[Richard W]

Re: robber fly

I'm pretty sure this species is Philonicus albiceps which is the typical robber fly of sand dunes, very rarely found anywhere else. Like all robber flies it is, of course, quite harmless, unless you are another fly in which case it will suck all your juices out leaving nothing but an empty dry husk ........