flying insect ?

[imyomama]

what the heck is that ?

[imyomama]

robber fly! also known as assassin fly! cool looking ! intimidating for sure!

[ACbob]

Robber fly

Oops. A post too late.

[EliteDriver]

Bass bait...

[merlin]

dragon fly

[rjtkdplus]

Robber fly for sure. They like to eat my honeybees.

[lovetohunt]

We called those horse fly

[Draco]

While non aggressive, they will sting if they just happen to fly into you. It is a sting you do not want to get. It's horrible.

[3ChordTruth]

robber fly! also known as assassin fly! cool looking ! intimidating for sure!

X2

Only fly I ever saw scarier than that bad dude was Jeff Goldblum.

[RifleBowPistol]

We called them horse flies growing up. Some people will tell you they don't bite, others will tell you they will bite the living crap out of you.

When I grew up on the coast, any time we were along a shore line, those suckers would bite the living crap out of you and would hunt you down relentlessly. But since moving from the coast, we have them where we are now, they are not aggressive at all. But some time back we were near either one of the rivers or a lake, and there were some of those suckers around. They were just like ones on the coast, they would relentlessly hunt you and bite the crap out of you.

We have them show up around our house regularly, I can't help but want to kill them. The times I was busy doing other things, and did not kill them. I noticed they were not aggressive at all. They don't act like the ones on the coast at all. Those A hole bugs that hang out around the bays are bad news. I don't know why the ones around the water are so aggressive, but they definitely are. It's burnt in my brain, that those things are mean as hell, so I want to kill every one I see. But around where we live, they are not aggressive at all.

I would like someone to explain the whole deal to me. People either seem to know them as not aggressive or as being very aggressive and bite like hell, it depends on if they are near water. Around salt water they are really bad.

[rjtkdplus]

https://www.google.com/search?q=horsefly&client=safari&hl=en-us&prmd=ivn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjx2cf8yfvwAhWI_p4KHakSB58Q_AUoAXoECAIQAQ&biw=375&bih=544

https://www.google.com/search?q=robberfly&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwjDkcb9yfvwAhWTUawKHSRlDxcQ2-cCegQIABAC&oq=robberfly&gs_lcp=ChJtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1pbWcQAzICCAAyBggAEAUQHjIECAAQGDIGCAAQChAYMgYIABAKEBg6CggAELEDEIMBEEM6CAgAELEDEIMBOgUIABCxAzoECAAQQzoHCAAQsQMQQ1C8lwJY4MYCYJXTAmgAcAB4AYABuAKIAZYZkgEIMC4xNy4wLjGYAQCgAQGwAQDAAQE&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-img&ei=Ntq4YMOePJOjsQWkyr24AQ&bih=544&biw=375&client=safari&prmd=ivn&hl=en-us

They look similar but there are some distinct differences.

[Jaybo31]

Shoot, we got skeeters that size around here.

[eaglegolfj]

We called those horse fly

yalls horse fly's are different than ours.

[Playa]

Are you a foreigner? Not sure how someone could be Texas bred and never seen one or even not been bit by one! We call Em “horse flies”

[eaglegolfj]

This is the horse flys I have been bitten by. I have seen the others but not sure what they are.