Thread subject: Diptera.info :: the most crazy fly I've seen so far! Acroceridae - Cyrtus gibbus

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 16-06-2007 09:15
#15

according to Tony Irwin, in dipterist's handbook, it seems that all acrocerids were reared from lycosids spiders.

The way that larva reaches the spiders is curious. The adults put eggs on the ground and when they mature, the larva can jump :o and seek for spiders - and enters in joints... and then go to the abdomen. In IV instar stage... they ate all spider... :|