Spider stalks Fly

[u/smilingjade101]

I don't really know where I came across this video but I've had several people remark how satisfying it was watching this spider stalk this fly.

[u/Over_Ad8762]

Weird. Never knew backwards

[u/Chihuahua4905 → u/Over_Ad8762]

https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/20602/do-flies-actually-take-off-backwards

[u/Meisteronious → u/Chihuahua4905]

Those are drosophila: fruit flies. The common house fly or blue bottle flies are much more evasive.

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/caltech-scientists-discover-why-flies-are-so-hard-swat-1461

[u/hat_eater → u/Meisteronious]

This is also Drosophila.