Insect-Eating Flies

• Prize
  Bronze in Special/Macro Photography
• Photographer
  Hsueh-Liang Tzeng
• Technical Info
  F22, 1/200
• Photo Date
  2024/07

All insect-eating flies have stout, spiny legs, thick beard-like manes on their faces, and two large compound eyes with three single eyes between them. When hunting, they use their strong legs to grab prey, then use their sharp short beaks to pierce the prey, inject saliva containing toxic and proteolytic enzymes, and then suck the prey's body fluids. The detailed process of insectivorous flies' feeding is completely presented through photo records.

• Awards
  2025 IPA (International Photography Awards) 2nd Pized Category: Book, Nature Honorable Mention Category: Nature Macro Honorable Mention Category: Special Smartphone Photography 2024 TIFA (Tokyo International Foto Award) Bronze Category: Special / Macro Photography *1 Honorable Mention Category: Architecture-Historic 2023 TIFA (Tokyo International Foto Award) Honorable Mention: Category: People- Life Styl2wards – 2023 Honorable Mentional