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 seemed interested in whatever this substance was:

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 Hello!

The "substance" is a spider coccoon (Tetragnatha sp.). The fly looks like an Empid or Hybotid.
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 Rhamphomyia variabilis (Empididae)?
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 Could be, but too little details (both the when-where-how big department and the picture itself) to say for sure.
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