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
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
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
