13 Ways to Eat a Fly

13 Ways to Eat a Fly — page 1 — Big flies Yum These flies are someone’s dinner small flies fat flies thinner We might think of flies as pests But many animals and plants depend on flies for food

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13 Ways to Eat a Fly — page 3 — Calliphonridae 13 Zapped In the blink of an eye a wood frog snaps out its tongue and catches a fly The frog closes its eyes and swallows using its eyeballs to push the fly down its throat Blue bottle fly

13 Ways to Eat a Fly — page 4 — fly 12 Wrapped A fly struggles to escape from sticky threads sending vibrations along the web Those vibrations mean dinner to a garden spider The spider races to the fly and bites it injecting venom to kill it Then the spider rolls the fly wrapping it in silk until it looks like a burrito Long-legged Dolichopodidae

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