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Spider and Fly

Here’s a green lynx spider eating a hoverfly that I photographed while doing a nature walk with Sister Marie Laurence School students. I am still impressed by small spiders capturing large prey.

The hoverfly, like many from that family, is a bee-mimic. Looking like a bee may make them less appealing to some predators, but not to the green lynx spider, which also eats bees.

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