Yellow crab spider eating a horse fly? - Misumena vatia

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Yellow crab spider eating a horse fly? - Misumena vatia -

Gormley (north of Toronto), York Region, Ontario, Canada
July 18, 2004

I found this yellow crab spider snacking on, what looks like a horse fly. Sorry, can't say I feel sorry for the horse fly! This was taken outside the barn in this head of Queen Anne's Lace.

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Yellow crab spider eating a horse fly? - Misumena vatia - female

Yellow crab spider eating a horse fly? - Misumena vatia

Contributed by Peter Juhasz on 19 July, 2005 - 8:31pm
Last updated 15 June, 2007 - 6:29pm

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