New Zealand Geo: Batfly
New Zealand Geo: Batfly
It's an ant! It's a spider. No—it's BATFLY! A blind, wingless species of fly that lives on and with New Zealand short-tailed bats in strange symbiotic relationship. Similar animals infesting bats in South America and elsewhere are blood-sucking parasites—the vampire's vampire—but the New Zealand ver...
This is a really good read about one of my favourite weird animal facts!
Reminds me of that old joke.
What do you call a fly without wings?
Mystacinobia zelandica
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Typically, these archaic New Zealanders behave in ways the rest-of the-world team thinks truly weird.
Shots fired!
But seriously, this was a neat read. A species of fly that can't fly, similar to bat flies in other countries except our one doesn't eat the bat, it eats their poo instead!
Yeah it was cool eh, I loved all the stuff about the tree and how there are always pregnant bat riders to make sure the species continues.