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I Just Saw the Fly - _TNY_2862

So I walked past the patch of snowdrop anemones (Anemone sylvestris) in my mother-in-law's garden and noticed a fly that was behaving very weirdly on one of the flowers.

 

I was sort of standing up on one end - and whil I was watching it kind of jumped town into the flower and froze there.

 

This waranted further investigation even if it was just a common house fly so I closed in - to discover that the fly was dead and in the grasp of this female goldenrod crab spider (Misumena vatia female) who had no problem moving the fly around.

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Uploaded on September 13, 2021
Taken on July 4, 2021