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Robber fly Biology & Ethology

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Reproduction 

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Cophinopoa chinensis mating

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Eutolmus sp. mating

Machimus sp. mating

Oviposition  

Neoitamus sp. ovipositing

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Laphria sp. ovipositing

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Cyrtopogon centralis ovipositing

Survival

Promachus yesonicus feeding on a bumble bee

Grypoctonus aino with prey

Choerades japonicus feeding on a wasp

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Cophinopoa chinensis feeding on a bug

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Robber fly size comparison. Left a Stichopogon, 5mm length; right Promachus yesonicus, 4 cm length. 

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Fossil robber fly in Baltic Amber (65 - 23 million years old)

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