Wednesday, 8 May 2013

Cannibal fruit flies: Lab maggots hunt one another



Researchers studying the innocuous-seeming fruit fly have found that the insects have cannibalistic tendencies. In "crowded laboratory conditions", the larvae, or maggots, will often pursue, attack and eat one another, footage reveals. via Pocket http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22345811

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