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Promachus with Great Black Wasp - Promachus vertebratus

Promachus with Great Black Wasp - Promachus vertebratus
Overland Park, Johnson County, Kansas, USA
August 15, 2009
Promachus with Great Black Wasp? any further ID thoughts?

Moved
Moved from Robber Flies.

 
thanks Herschel
Appreciate the ID.

Moved
Moved from ID Request.

thanks both + note on big prey
Thanks for the nice comments. I keep trying to find these guys with big prey. Here on the guide I recall one with a large dragonfly, and another with a big cicada. I've been crossing my fingers to find something like that. Mark, your grasshopper prey certainly looks big next to that robberfly.

WOW is right
A great picture. My robber fly & prey from this afternoon isn't nearly as good a photograph, but the fly is holding larger prey in about the same manner. http://bugguide.net/node/view/321127

Wow
Nice get. Big robbers with big prey rule!

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