Prey & Predator #05 Artist : Arun Soman

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. The name "robber flies" reflects their notoriously aggressive predatory habits; they feed mainly or exclusively on other insects and, as a rule, they wait in ambush and catch their prey in flight.

This image was captured using NIKON Z6 camera with a normal 50mm f1.8 prime lens with the help of a extenstion tube. Extension tube give us the capability to close focus our subject. here the focusing distance is around 3 cm only. Actually this mesmerizing image was capture without a proper macro lens. Also this is a single shot image not a stacked one.