Bernie Arnold sent this really cool picture of a predator gnawing on a hapless victim of nature (that profligate waster and spender of life).
We're thinking Diptera Asilidae efferia sp. The length is 2 to 3 times the width, and notice the sword-like ovipositor-- FEMALE!
Now, for extra points, who can identify it's lunch to the species level?
A really cool website for everything you ever wanted to know about these voracious predators can be found at: http://www.geller-grimm.de/asilidae.htm
And, of course, there is the ever helpful Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asilidae
Hungry. Send more bugs.
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