A side view photo of a flower-feeding march fly on a white papertowel, against a white background. The fly has a simple oval body covered in fluffy hairs, big colourful eyes, transparent wings and spindly black legs. Its triangular compound eyes shine green and yellow. The fluff on its underside is an off-white colour, while the fluff on its back and on the end of its abdomen is bright, saturated orange.

A top view photo of the same fly, now sitting on dark striped fabric. In this photo you can see the top of its eyes touch, the very top of its thorax has no fuzz, and that there is a tear in its right wing.

A sideview photo of the same fly as it drinks sugarwater out of a green spoon. It seems to be unsteady on its legs, but the end of its long mouthpart opens up to drink the liquid.

Found this fella looking like it was on its last legs. My partner and I tried to revive it with some sugar water, and it did drink more than its fill... but alas, twas its final meal😔

🪲ID Guess: Flower-feeding March Fly
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A photo of a white garland house hopper spider in the middle of eating different species of jumping spider on a brown leaf. The house hopper spider has a fuzzy, light brown, chestnut shaped abdomen with four dark vertical stripes running along it. Its thorax, head and legs are hazel, shiny and almost half transparent, and it has a dark brown patch on the top of its head rimmed with white. It has six round black eyes and its chelicerae are stabbed inside its meal. The spider being eaten is yellow, orange and white. Its eyes, the same as the spider eating it, seem to stare at the other.

Its a spider eat spider world out there
(This looks like a scene smugpugchimera would draw ngl)

🪲ID Guess: White Garland House Hopper
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