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The scorpion fly

Scorpion fly. Funny story - I did not even know that such happen, and when I began to read about it in Wikipedia, my daughter asked why she had such a long beak...
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Scorpion fly. Funny story - I did not even know that such happen, and when I began to read about it in Wikipedia, my daughter asked why she had such a long beak. I managed to read that she was stealing spoil from the spiders, getting it out of the web. I did not have time to read further, but I logically conjectured that I needed a claw on its tail, obviously, to cut this cobweb!
And the imagination immediately drew me a brave fly, which, as a saboteur, sneaks, cuts a web, steals spiders from a prey, and buzzes, and then wanders away from there.
God, how wrong I was! This male clings to the female during mating. The whole concept of a fly-saboteur went to nothing.
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