Prey

A meal like this could take an advanced nymph to adulthood. It appears to be the same sort of tachinid (parasitic) fly that fell prey to the flattened jumping spider in the laundry pole crack.

Early in the morning I caught sight of a tiny (7cm) orb web in a patch of low sunlight. It was so pretty that I went for my camera. That was when I saw the spider. I measured it at 2mm. It was busily wrapping up a midge that had made a hole in the web. The spider’s two front eyes are just visible between its legs. It is a native spider, but I’m not sure which. See extra.