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Un asile et sa proie.

Les asiles sont des diptères carnivores qui se tiennent à l'affût en situation généralement ensoleillée d'où elles se précipiteront sur les proies repérées. Elles présentent un rostre dirigé vers l'avant avec lequel elles empalent leurs victimes et, sur leur face, de longs poils qui protègent leurs yeux des gesticulations de leurs proies.

 

The robber flies are carnivorous Diptera that are kept on the lookout, in a generally sunny situation, from where they will rush on prey. They present a rostrum directed forward with which they impale their victims and, on their face, long hairs which protect their eyes from the gesticulations of their preys.

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Uploaded on February 4, 2018
Taken on July 25, 2014