• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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    17 hours ago

    robber fly, its basically the fly version of dragonfly, they love to intercept mosquitos and other fly prey. there is a quite a few parasitoid flies, that attacks different insect hosts. the strangest ones are BAT FLies, which has no wings and are mostly blind.

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        16 hours ago

        bat flies, have evolved to cling to bat fur, they look like freaky spiders. apparently they are considered parasites on bats.

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          15 hours ago

          Oh, that’s fair. I just vaguely assumed they were called bat flies because someone once upon a time thought they looked kinda like the fly version of some sorts of bats, but obviously didn’t bother looking into that.