A Baby Robber Fly

jaharris1001 · Post by **jaharris1001** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 12:08 pm

Or at least that what I think it is,,,, I got 1 shot on this lil fella before he flew away,,, wish he would have stuck around a little longer

jmlphoto · Post by **jmlphoto** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 12:23 pm

great composition on this one. the green background works well with the orange little guy. he sure does have some long legs eh?

jaharris1001 · Post by **jaharris1001** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 1:26 pm

jmlphoto wrote:great composition on this one. the green background works well with the orange little guy. he sure does have some long legs eh?

thanks jm,,, he does have some long legs huh,,

also,, you can see signs on his prepubescent mustache coming in

beetleman · Post by **beetleman** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 1:34 pm

Love the color on your robberfly. A baby robberfly would be a maggot. You have a smaller species here.

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 4:59 pm

To date there are about 6,750 robber fly species in the world, about 1000 species of robber flies reside here in the United States, probably illegally but they are here just the same.

There are also more than 100 species that occur in Florida too. This is a very nice photograph Jim and probably could be a bit better had you had a bit more DOF, especially on the abdomen. Still you did good!

jaharris1001 · Post by **jaharris1001** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 5:08 pm

Ken Ramos wrote:To date there are about 6,750 robber fly species in the world, about 1000 species of robber flies reside here in the United States, probably illegally but they are here just the same. There are also more than 100 species that occur in Florida too. This is a very nice photograph Jim and probably could be a bit better had you had a bit more DOF, especially on the abdomen. Still you did good!

thanks all... like I said,, I got one shot on this fella before he flew away