More Parasites! The Phorid Fly!

• the Bear

  5 Apr 07, 21:00

  The Parasitic Phorid Fly is a nightmare to ants. About the size of a pinhead, this fly is now being used to control fire ants in the US.
  
  
  
  The fly is the worst enemy of the ants as it uses ants in the goriest of ways. It uses the head of ants as incubators for its young.
  
  That's right... THE HEAD!
  
  The fly hovers over a panic-strickened nest of ants bombarding the ants. The fly hits the ants with the precision of a fighter and lays an egg into the head of each ant.
  
  The process paralyses the ant and the egg hatches, eating the inside of the head. Once the fly matures, it breaks out of the now empty head.
  
  
  
  As stated, the flies are now being used in the US to control the fire ant infestation but the flies will do that to almost any ant which is big enough to nourish the parasitic larvae.
• mhcampboy

  5 Apr 07, 21:02

  Is the fly a parasite to human?
• pervertboi

  5 Apr 07, 21:03

  Sounds like someone in my new company.....
• pervertboi

  5 Apr 07, 21:04

  it would have to be very tiny to fit in an ant's head
• mhcampboy

  5 Apr 07, 21:05

  Originally posted by pervertboi:

  it would have to be very tiny to fit in an ant's head

  fire ants are huge!
• stellazio

  6 Apr 07, 19:10

  using a fly to counter the fire ants.. soon another problem will occur, this has happened before somewhere i can't rmb..
  
  and the counter measurements soon became pests themselves..
• the Bear

  6 Apr 07, 19:11

  two words..
  
  Cane Toad
• OasisBlue

  6 Apr 07, 19:17

  and they will have to think of another way to control the flies
• norm

  6 Apr 07, 20:13

  the parasite flies will then lay their eggs in human ears and human nostrils to feed on human brains.
• crofty

  7 Apr 07, 14:15

  I wonder what is the size of the egg Nice way to deal with the ants but too many of these flys cause chaos too