Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Didea Fasciata and little friends(?)

Posted by Louis Boumans on 30-10-2005 19:02
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Greene et al. 1987
A Tephritid fly mimics the territorial displays of its jumping spider predators. Science 236:310-312.

Of course this cannot be the explanation for all waving ~ swaying behaviour in flies (even apart from flight ;-), but I thought it's sth nice to have heard of.. Louis