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Caught (hanging out?) in a spiderweb by our cable junction box.

Canon T4i
Tokina 100mm macro lens on a full set of ProMaster extension tubes
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Sigma EF500 DG Super Flash w/Neewer 8"x12" diffuser, 1/2 - 1/8 power
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Asilidae, the robber fly family, also called assassin flies.
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ChrisR wrote:Asilidae, the robber fly family, also called assassin flies.
I kind of suspected that from other people's images.

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This forum does that to you. You'll soon know your annelid worms from your nemotodes, and which rotifers are bdelloid.. :lol:
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ChrisR wrote:This forum does that to you. You'll soon know your annelid worms from your nemotodes, and which rotifers are bdelloid.. :lol:
Oddly, I know WAY more about worms than I do about flies!

But then I have somewhat of an interest in soft bodied invertebrates, like slugs, sea slugs and the like. :D

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