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Robber flies track their beetle prey using tiny microbursts of movement

  • Written by Siddhant Pusdekar, Graduate Researcher in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota
imageRobber flies visually track their prey before spearing it with their proboscis.Paloma Gonzalez-Bellido, CC BY-ND

April in the Florida Panhandle. It was hot, humid, and a thunderstorm was lurking. But as a fresh graduate student, I was relieved for the escape from my first brutal Minnesota winter. I was accompanying my adviser, Paloma...

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