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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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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/en/photograph/12709/trapped-fly (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Simon Pollard, published 1 March 2009.