Guardian Nature School Team Contact Blog Project Noah Facebook Project Noah Twitter

A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife

Join Project Noah!
nature school apple icon

Project Noah Nature School visit nature school

Robber fly

Neoitamus melanoopogon

Habitat:

Bush garden, lots of rotten logs, with bumble bees and cicadas

Species ID Suggestions



Sign in to suggest organism ID

4 Comments

Wildchild
Wildchild 11 years ago

Thanks everyone - now I look it up there are heaps of bumble bees and cicadas in my garden so makes a lot if sense

JillBlack
JillBlack 11 years ago

Robber fly Neoitamus species of which a number of similar looking species are found in New Zealand

DaneCole
DaneCole 11 years ago

Very nice, definitely some kind of robber fly

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 11 years ago

Nice robber fly shot.

Wildchild
Spotted by
Wildchild

Wellington, New Zealand

Spotted on Jan 17, 2013
Submitted on Jan 18, 2013

Related Spottings

Robber Fly Robber Fly Robber Fly praying on a Flesh Fly Common Awl Robberfly

Nearby Spottings

Large brown vagrant spider Huhu beetle - runga rere Plume moth Spotting
Noah Guardians
Noah Sponsors
join Project Noah Team

Join the Project Noah Team