Stylish this bug might be, and compulsively clean. I watched him preen and clean for a long time this morning, as I hovered over the sticky patch of goldenrod and blackberries near the lake.
He's also a natural-born killer -- of just about any other sizable insect you can name. Know him as a robber fly, Diogmites neoternatus, to be specific.
Me? I can't help thinking of him as some kind of fancy hard candy, butterscotch, with stripes of licorice.
Neverthless, I'm glad he's only an inch in size.
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