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Jabeka Thunder Bay , Canada Jul 18, 2020

I found this on the milkweed while photographing the monarch caterpillars. I think the victim in this is a leaf hopper but no idea what the large creature is.

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Jul 19, 2020

It's a robber fly (Diptera: Asilidae). These are ambush predators on other small arthropods, mainly other insects such as the hapless leafhopper here.

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Jabeka Thunder Bay , Canada Jul 19, 2020

You sir are wealth of great information. Thank you!

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Jul 19, 2020

I think of myself as more of a sufferer from drivelalia factosis ;-)

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