Capture!

A male grey house spider, Badumna longinqua gets his fly. This Australian native is very common in New Zealand. It prefers to live in and around buildings, where it builds a ladder-type web with a bolt hole in one corner. The body length is about 1.5 cm, double that for leg span. Not as big as the female that used to live behind my washing machine.

When I took this photo I got too close and he bolted into his hole. The fly remained perfectly still. Later I went back to see what sort of fly it was, but it had been dragged into the hole and only its legs were visible. This spider doesn't wrap its prey.

This was cropped a lot and won't go any bigger.

Another slow headachy day.