• Toaster@lemmy.world
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    The Asilidae are the robber fly family, also called assassin flies. They are powerfully built, bristly flies with a short, stout proboscis enclosing the sharp, sucking hypopharynx.[1][2] The name “robber flies” reflects their expert predatory habits; they feed mainly or exclusively on other insects and, as a rule, they wait in ambush and catch their prey in flight.

    Stabs their prey and sucks their insides out through a straw. Metal as fuck.

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      A fitting death for a wasp.

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        “Me, a members of the only dominant species, whom is at this moment causing the sixt mass extinction, has once fehlt minor inconveniance by one of the species we are currently wiping out, therefore it is completely justified to wish said species a painfull slow death.”

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          Yeah but I’m not a parasite that turns its prey into zombies, which roam around as my babies eat it from the inside out. I’m not a hyper parasite, that targets other humans. And I’m not a tiny little thing smaller than a single-celled amoeba with nerve cells without nuclei.

          I’m not saying wasps should die a metal death because they sting people, I’m saying that it’s fitting because they’re gnarly. Also they’re assholes, getting lary after stealing my cider.

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      they feed mainly or exclusively on other insects and, as a rule, they wait in ambush and catch their prey in flight.

      Reminds me of dragonflies. Had one of those bros snatch a horse fly that was harassing me right out of the sky in front of me. So cool.

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        Oh yeah, I remember from back when I was in band camp, our practice field had an aerial battle of dragon flies snatching all the sweat bees out of the air above us.