The falconfly is a large, predatory ammophiline sphecid, about 1 foot (30.5 centimeters) long, who inhabits the Antarctic Tropical Rainforest, descended from sand wasps that got blown over to Antarctica long ago, in the documentary The Future is Wild. It is one of the multiple species of large wasps of Antarctica as big as birds of prey that make light work of killing flutterbirds. When a falconfly sees an unwary prey, such as a flutterbird, it dives to the attack. The hooked legs seize the bird