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Asilidae
This long, thin, fly looking insect was about 1 inch long. Its legs appeared to be in 3 sections the shoulder end and foot end had a green colouring about them and the feet had a v shape to them. The tail end had quite a point to it. There are 7,100 different species in hte Asilidae family.
Spotted on May 28, 2012
Submitted on Jun 3, 2012
2 Comments
Thank you LivanEscudero for the identification.
These are called Robber Flies (Family Asilidae). I wouldn't like to guess a specific species for your part of the world, but here are some found in North America:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/151