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Field Notes

Description:

A big fly (about 3,5 cm) caught an ant by my surprise putting out his long tonque suddenly while I was taking a very close-up picture from this same big fly ... never knew that those (horse)flies eat ants

Habitat:

Cabenda-dorp

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (5)
Danntheman
Uhm, in this place where I saw the big fly, there are no flowers, only trees ! I think it's family of the horse-fly (Tabanidae), in Suriname we've got two of them, in surinamees we call it, the "cowfree" and the other, the "brokoston", both are drinking blood
Mark Ridgway
I suppose it could be a flower feeder which got an ant stuck on it's beak ? :)
Mark Ridgway
I can't even think of which family it might belong to. It looks superficially like Tabanidae (horse flies) but they don't do ants that I know of. And that 'tongue' is incredible... a bit like the Bombyliidae (bee flies) but they do flowers. I sure hope a fly person knows this. Thanks for showing it.
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PublishedMay 11, 2015

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