A pile of green fruit, just sitting there, doesn’t attract much attention. But, after a while, one of the fruit flies does something very interesting. It starts to lay its eggs in the middle of the room.

The whole room becomes a nesting area for aphids, and, since no one is present at all in the room, flies are guaranteed at random.

But, once the eggs are loose, the sound of the fly’s alarm is not enough to scare away the predators, since the spider is well camouflaged in the web.

With this escape route so clear, it is time to return to the question of the mysterious way. The familiar path may be a more fluid medium, or perhaps a more viscous one.