Talk:Asilidae

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Is this a robber fly? Would it be useful to Wikipedia? I've licensed it cc by-sa 3.0. Craig Pemberton (talk) 00:21, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

File:Pegesimallus sp robberfly.jpg to appear as POTD soon

Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Pegesimallus sp robberfly.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on April 15, 2011. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2011-04-15. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :) Thanks! howcheng {chat} 16:26, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Picture of the day

A robber fly (Pegesimallus species shown), an insectivorous insect, feeding on a beetle. There are about 7,100 species of robber flies, all of which use a proboscis to stab and inject victims with saliva containing neurotoxic and proteolytic enzymes that paralyze and digest the insides; the fly then sucks the liquefied meal through the proboscis.Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim

Article ought to mention that Robber Flies are venomous

Robber flies use venom to kill prey. They can even take down hummingbirds. Michael McGinnis (talk) 20:48, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

Comment for Behavioral Ecology Class

I found this entry insightful and the biological section is well written. One part that I found interesting was how they attack and devour their prey, in particular, those bigger than themselves. Though detailed as it is already, I do understand and agree with the ranking that is listed in the talk page. Whereas the article itself is missing citations and links to other articles. This is important as it can be helpful for fact-checking as well as to allow others to see if the same articles hold other information that can go for this entry. Apart from fact-checking and getting the appropriate citations in, breaking up the biological section into subcategories can make the article more organized. Though I understand the idea of making broad headings, I appreciated how the article had broken down the morphology of the fly and felt that the biology entry can benefit from the same approach. As for a couple of suggestions, it can be broken down by life cycle including the laying of eggs and development details, another on social behavior and interactions for predation, and finally one on geography. Lastly, going off the most recent comment, as well as their hunting and feeding behavior I would like to see if have a section on the fly’s saliva and in general their feeding and interaction with prey as it appeared to be referenced enough through to deserve its own section.Srivera2019 (talk) 03:23, 18 September 2019 (UTC)