I had a large fly in my kitchen and when it would land it would be sort of twitching, eventually I nailed it and as I cleaned it up with a paper towel I saw that dozens of tiny worms had burst out from inside of it and were still alive. Flies lay eggs, so WTF were they? Can flies be attacked by parasites? Or did fly eggs hatch on the fly? It was kind of disturbing and I ended up burning the remains with a lighter because smashing them was ineffective. This is not a joke, and I am really curious to know if someone knows about this type of thing, I can't find any websites that mention anything like it.
2006-09-22 11:57:10 · 5 answers · asked by Lord_Ward 1 in Health ➔ Other - Health
yes they can be attacked by parasites, i saw a show on the national geographic, where they used a certain fly that would lay eggs on ants to control their population, i'm sure there are other insects that lay eggs on flies
2006-09-22 12:17:54 · answer #1 · answered by Mike H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you must've killed a freakish new species of fly, insidious in the extreme in that it can lay live young, bypassing the entire egg/gestation stage of life- shortening the so-called 'babe to biter' time line. It's possible polyparabens (common in cosmetics) in the environment, along with the constantly breaking down and aerosolizing flame retardants inside your computer's circuit boards, when coming into contact with a common house fly in your home, altered the insect's reproductive genes, shutting down its egg production capability. It's a good thing you killed that beastie, for if all those little maggots had subsequently utilized and passed on the eggless reproductive style to their young, they'd multiply at an unbelievable rate. A close call, this one! ... Or it's possible it was something else entirely. I have no basis for the hypothesis presented above.
2006-09-24 16:53:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi, I notice that this chat is decade old, but I have been consistently killing large houseflies with live maggots inside their bodies. I have at least 5 instances of killed houseflies with maggots crawling out of their guts. My location is Yangon, Myanmar.
2016-09-26 22:30:29 · answer #3 · answered by Neutral 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggot
I don't trust Wikipedia much but this seems to be about right.
2006-09-22 12:10:23 · answer #4 · answered by DelK 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
eughhhhh....... yes
2006-09-22 11:59:26 · answer #5 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋