• turdas@suppo.fi
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    21 hours ago

    The larval stages are predators or parasitoids of the eggs and larvae of other insects. The adult females usually deposit eggs in the vicinity of possible hosts, quite often in the burrows of beetles, wasps, or solitary bees.

    Larvae live parasitically in the nests of various solitary bees and wasps.[2] When the fly larva locates a host larva, it will consume it slowly, greatly increasing in size as it tightly holds onto the host, eventually becoming a pupa and overwintering.[9]

    haha yeah, adorable

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      10 hours ago

      You could make the human reproductive process sound pretty gross, too. But then we get all horned up, and it sounds like a great idea!

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      13 hours ago

      robber fly, its basically the fly version of dragonfly, they love to intercept mosquitos and other fly prey. there is a quite a few parasitoid flies, that attacks different insect hosts. the strangest ones are BAT FLies, which has no wings and are mostly blind.

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          12 hours ago

          bat flies, have evolved to cling to bat fur, they look like freaky spiders. apparently they are considered parasites on bats.

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            12 hours ago

            Oh, that’s fair. I just vaguely assumed they were called bat flies because someone once upon a time thought they looked kinda like the fly version of some sorts of bats, but obviously didn’t bother looking into that.

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      20 hours ago

      They kinda look like adult botflies too lol. Why do the most horrific things grow up to be so cute?