What is this huge flying insect? Found in north Georgia.
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Its a robber fly (family Asilidae); looks like Promachus rufipes - https://www.marylandbiodiversity.com/viewSpecies.php?species=2618
Robber flies are ambush predators on other small arthropods.
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