Photography by David Chesterfield

13/07/2022

21/05/2022

04/04/2021

The Asilidae are the robber fly family, also called assassin flies. They are powerfully built, bristly flies with a short, stout proboscis enclosing the sharp, sucking hypopharynx.[1][2] The name "robber flies" reflects their notoriously aggressive predatory habits; they feed mainly or exclusively on other insects and as a rule they wait in ambush and catch their prey in flight.

The robber fly has incredibly sophisticated eyes: like all flies, it has compound eyes made up of many lenses - in the case of the robber fly, it is thought to have several thousand lenses per eye.

04/04/2021

1931 Dresch Monobloc
France
Collection: Bobby Haas and Haas Moto Museum