• Question: what's the craziest thing that you've found out from flies?

    Asked by tinydancer to Kat on 17 Mar 2011 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Katherine Davies

      Katherine Davies answered on 17 Mar 2011:


      Hi

      This would be that adult females can hold a developing egg inside them, which can develop into a live larva if it is not laid in ~24 hours. Its certainly strange to dissect a fly to see a maggot inside!

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