13 April 2009

Phorid Flies Provide Death from the Skies

Featured in ScienceBlog's first monthly rotating photo blog, Photo Synthesis, is Alex Wild, whose photography of the insect world, and ants in particular is worthy of insect centerfolds. In this particular entry, he captures phorid flies (Pseudacteon sp.) trolling a fire ant colony for a candidate whose head will roll...

1 comment:

gkamp said...

Part deux shows that fire ants aren't the only ones having to worry about being parasitized by these tiny flies. Alex Wild captured the evidence.