Tachinids comprise a large family (8200 species worldwide) of mostly robust and strongly bristled flies.
The larvae of almost all members of the family are either parasitoids that ultimately cause the death of the insect it is living on/in, essentially eating it alive, or parasites that exploit and feed off its host but do not directly cause mortality.
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