I'm sure I've seen some of the flies below amongst the nightmare monsters in a Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights .......
You know the painting?
By Hieronymus Bosch (circa 1450–1516) - Galería online, Museo del Prado., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45147809
A vision of hell, with all sorts of weird creatures from the medieval imagination, like this .....
... and this .......
... so some of these would fit in well in this improbably bestiary
Empid fly Empis digramma. Preys on other flies using those piercing, downward-pointing mouthparts
Snipe-fly Rhagio scolopaceus. rests head-down, then catches other flies in mid-air
Snipe-fly eyes
Scorpion-fly Panorpa germanica
Crane-fly
Drone-fly
Photographed along a short stretch of riverbank at Wolsingham in Weardale
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