What Do You Call a Fly That Can’t Fly?
It looks terrible. It’s hairy. And it can’t fly. It’s the terrible hairy fly, or to give it its scientific name, Mormotomyia hirsuta. The 1cm-long insect, which breeds in bat faeces, has small eyes, long legs and tiny useless wings. Entomologists Robert Copeland and Ashley Kirk-Spriggs both on an International Centre of Insect Physiology and…
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