Robber fly ( Laphria sacrator ) with dogwood twig borer beetle photo


20-JUN-2010	Christine Hanrahan

This large bumble bee-like robber fly has caught a longhorned beetle, the dogwood twig borer (Oberea tripunctata).

Canon PowerShot SX10 IS
1/80s f/7.1 at 5.0mm iso100 full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto

Hank Vander Velde		19-May-2017 00:53
Great catch x 2 Christine.

globalgadabout		18-May-2017 23:50
it's a bug eat bug world...yet encouraged that dogwoods are protected against marauders...

Jim Coffman		18-May-2017 23:22
Wow, great shot!

Helen Betts		18-May-2017 21:50
Yikes! Great capture but poor beetle. V.

Kuriacose Joseph		18-May-2017 21:47
Great shot! Life is tough in the real world...

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