Giant Tachinid Fly

Tachinids are important parasites of other insects including a number of pest species. They can therefore be considered beneficial.

Hedgehog Fly, Dejeania bombylans Order Diptera

Dejeania bombylans Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830, is an exceptionally spiny, large, sometimes locally abundant, and common species, widespread in South Africa and the Afrotropical Region (Ethiopia to South Africa) although they do not appear to occur in Cape Town or the drier western parts of the country. The genus is recorded as parasites of Noctuidae, including Heliothis armigera.