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@helstadt

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Did you ever notice how however tall the tower of hanoi gets you can still solve it with three columns?

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I had this idea for a looping animation in which a single dot has a pretty long loop, but the animation as a whole is much shorter. Because of the repetition this animation is only 1 second long!

Yellow humpback fly, Psilodera valid, Acroceridae (small-headed flies)

Found in South Africa

Photos by mariedelport

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The larvae of these flies are spiny, hairy maggots that can run (using an inchworm style motion) and jump and all on their own they hunt down spiders, then enter the spider through a leg joint and live parasitically in their organs for sometimes years, depending on the spider’s lifespan

How do they get out? 😨

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They chew their way out after they finally kill the host, and then they pupate outside the spider’s body, but that’s usually near almost the end of the spider’s lifespan! And many of the host species live from five to ten years, sometimes synchronized, which means those species of small head flies only emerge as adults once every decade, too! Others come out every year, depending on the spider they use.

Also when the larva first finds a spider, it avoids being noticed by only moving when the spider does. So it will sit there on the spider’s leg for hours, inch up the leg every time the spider does anything and then stop again.