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Natural History Photographs
by Cor Zonneveld
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Robberflies: family Asilidae
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subfamily Laphriinae
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Choerades rufipes
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Passo de Lucomagno (Tessin), Switzerland; 27 July 2007.
Light coniferous forest, altitude ca. 1950 m
Top row: Female with prey and ovipositing female
Bottom row: Female emerging from hole in rotting wood, probably after ovipostion; alert female
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Laphria flava
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Dagro (Tessin), Switzerland; 17 & 21 July 2007.
Male in territory; they launch themselves from their perch to
persue prey insects. The prey shown here is is a parasitic wasp.
Landscape with perching site (the pile of logs).
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Dagro (Tessin), Switzerland; 26 July 2007.
Two females were simultaneously ovipositing in the big tree stump shown in the photographs below.
They oviposited in small holes in the wood, in the bark, as well as between bark and wood.
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