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Japanese fly - another view

by FromJapan
Aug 28, 2002 9:33 AM · 2172 views · 70.3 k · 640 x 480

Keywords: Japan fly Mie Japanese

Please help me identify this huge fly. Pic taken July 2002 at Akame waterfalls, Mie Prefecture Japan. This fly was about 2 inches long and tried to follow and land on me.

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Comments (5)

carmengecko

Aug 29, 2002 11:13 AM

Umm I think thats just a large horsefly, I squished a horsefly that looked just like that with my hat this summer in Nova scotia, Canada, and it was about the size of my thumb.

Sigma

Sep 2, 2002 4:25 AM

this appears to be a robberfly

jamilah

Oct 26, 2002 8:33 PM

Rating: 5/5

I can't stop laughing.. At any rate, whatever kind of fly it is, it's a dead fly..

chibi-sephiroth

Jul 9, 2003 2:44 AM

lol
yeah i think its a robberfly by the shape of it's body

GerardPennards

Jan 29, 2005 5:10 PM

True, this is a horsefly from the family Tabanidae.
Females do suck blood, and they bother humans and livestock, mostly when there's water in the neighbourhood>
Greetings, Gerard

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