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Won't Stay Slender, Pt. 3 - _TNY_8943

This is one of the slender crab spiders (Tibellus oblongus) but eating like this will be the end of that name.

 

I found this one on a beautifully yellow cushion spurge (Euphorbia epithymoides) eating and if you look closely, it hasn't just caught one fly, but it is actually two of them!

 

I snapped a few shots of it and then we headed inside for some lunch of our own, but when I got back out I decided to check to see if it was done and saw it in the same place. It was still eating - but to my surprise it was eating something else. After finishing the two flies (I'm assuming they were mating), the spider had found and killed a hoverfly which it was devouring!

 

Pt 1 is with the same catch as this one here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/50095146712/

 

Pt. 2 is when having caught the hoverfly here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/50372534901/

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Uploaded on April 5, 2023
Taken on May 31, 2019