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Would a fly eat a ant?

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12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

It depends on the type of fly and the type of ant; some tiny but very important species of flies in the family Phoridae actually are parasites of leafcutter ants (Atta). The flies fly over columns of ants that go out to cut leaves; they dip down suddenly and lay one egg on each of the largest kinds of workers they can find. The egg hatches out into an ant larva (grub) and eats the brain of the ant from inside. The ants are terrified of the tiny flies and they have tiny workers that ride on the big workers to try and keep off the flies.

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