bee killer

bee killer

n (Animals) another name for robber fly

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

bee killer - swift predatory fly having a strong body like a bee with the proboscis hardened for sucking juices of other insects captured on the wingrobber flydipteran, dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects - insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercingAsilidae, family Asilidae - robber flies