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Kōrero: Spiders and other arachnids

Trapped fly

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Trapped fly

A fly is trapped in the extraordinarily precise web of the native orb-web spider, Eriphora pustulosa.

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Private collection

by Simon Pollard

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Simon Pollard, Spiders and other arachnids – Webs, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/12709/trapped-fly (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Simon Pollard, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.