Thursday, May 7, 2009

Fun Fact Lesson 1: Patience


The diet of the flesh fly is very high in water content. The fly regurgitates the liquid portion of the food, holds it whilst evaporation reduces the water content.

The fly then swallows a much more concentrated food meal without the water content. This continues until sufficient amount of liquid is left for the fly.
-- Wikipedia

Whoa, that means they eat their own vomit. Very close to eating their own bowels then. I shall google on that.