Come Into My Parlor...

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Said the spider to the fly.

I was stunned to this in the spider web. I found it hard to believe that the web held this sucker! When it hit the web, the spider ran to the top of the web. When it saw dinner, it crawled back down to investigate. The "fly" got real agitated when the spider got close, and the spider backed off 6 or 8 inches. Then the spider ran in on it, latched on and held on for a ride wilder than any rodeo. After several seconds, the spider backed off and waited for the poison to take effect. There wasn't a struggle when the spider went in to feed.

The first shot shows the spider feeding. The second shows how much webbing was destroyed and wrapped around dinner. The third shot is a closer view of the spider feeding, and the last shot I took just for comparison of the prey to the predator.