[Closed] What's this big fly?

So fast I can’t see it 🤣 Horseflies are slow.

Can't see it, seems quite small to me.

Angry?

Thats the russian antonov an-255 heavy lifting horsefly, packs a punch but is slow and cumbersome and easily knocked out of the sky

Velcro?

Right it's flown over to Flickr now so hopefully you can see it

Some variety of horse/deer/bastard fly. Kill it with fire, immediately.

Abyssinian pony tickler

I'm bloody glad I'm not an Abyssinian pony then

Hover Fly.

Tabanus eggeri?

Or one of the other 3000 species of horsefly perhaps.

Super fly guy?

Possibly a cow fly? (Tabanus bovinus)
https://public.fotki.com/cactus/animals/diptera/tabanus-bovinus/may282008image07tab.html

Kin' 'ell! It's huge, that's what, HUGE!

Possibly a cow fly? 

Isn't that what Desperate Dan used to eat in The Dandy?

Dunno but it’s pretending to be a wasp

Dark giant horsefly (Tabanus sudeticus)

Is it really that big? Your thumb looks kinda stubby

A clegg.

If I thought for even a second that that was a horsefly, the last thing I would have been doing was offer it my thumb to snack on during a photo shoot. 🙂

Tabanus sudeticus - dark giant horsefly ??

its an "ahyabastard"

Knowing how much reaction, infection and pain a small-ish Clegg fly can inflict, I seriously hope the OP flattened the bastard.

I am not particularly fond of wasps, but even they serve a purpose, being underrated pollinators. But horseflies are the work of Satan.

Is it really that big? Your thumb looks kinda stubby

Yeah my thumbs normal shape, was just sort of angled funny in that pic! It was from tip of thumb to knuckle, luckily it decided I didn't look tasty enough, think it was just enjoying the sun, probably digesting the half pint of blood it just had off someone else

It's only females that bite and feed on blood, to get protein for thier babies. A mysogonist might find a joke there.

Upshot is, you only need to kill 50% of them 😂