Fly Metamorphosis is a Beautiful Nightmare | Deep Look

thank you to Opera for supporting [Music] PBS coming of age is awkward messy challenging even for a house fly see this pulsing sack on the fly's head it's a specialized organ that the fly uses is just once to break free from its pupil casing what a headache it all started a few weeks back when Mom and Dad had a brief but spirited courtship which resulted in these delicate oblong eggs and from the eggs maggots hi the little squirmers dig right in wherever mom laid them after chowing down for a few days this Chalker is now five times its original size What It Wants now is privacy over the next 4 days or so the maggot's ivory exoskeleton hardens I'm going to my room and darkens to a deep mahogany the fly is now a pupa see these holes this is how it gets oxygen and that air just happens to flow through its butt while things may look quiet on the outside there's a lot happening beneath the surface this is a blowfly a house fly's cousin scientists at the Natural History Museum in London x-rayed the pupa to reveal the transformation behind its opaque shell see them go from Chubby Tube to a complex creature with legs and wings and big eyes the once Blobby maggot has totally transformed but the Cozy casing that protected it now holds it captive that's why this inflatable organ called the tup is essential the fly pumps it full of clear colored insect blood called hemolymph and Pops the lid off its casing once the head's out the struggle continues next come the front legs abdomen and back [Music] legs the process of freeing itself is called [Music] eclosion but not everyone makes it some get stuck right in the middle forever the ones that do survive pull the tum into their head All That Remains is the tal suture it's a scar the adult fly will carry around as a reminder of the heroic effort it made to start its life on the outside now what to do with all these new body parts its wings extend from crumpled to elegant as they fill with hemo this insect has now realized its full potential to fly off into your house and drive you mad thank you to oper for supporting PBS one new way to explore complex topics in the world around us is with Opera's completely redesigned AI integrated browser Opera has a multitude of new function ities including Arya their own artificial intelligence while browsing with Arya you'll have commands such as explore which provides an overview of the context of highlighted text and suggests how to explore further by providing links and keywords and translate which translates highlighted text into the detected browser language plus you'll be able to do all this Exploration with a tab Islands feature that automatically builds collapsible groups of tabs arranged by context into dedicated tab Islands additionally private browsing with a VPN hides your location and activity while offering unlimited usage without logging or collecting personal information all integrated into the browser without the need for additional extensions to learn more about Opera there's a link in the description and pinned comment below a [Music]

Channel: Deep Look

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Keywords: deep look, entomology, biology, insect, flies, fly, bugs, housefly, insects, macro, ptilinum, metamorphosis, pupa, pupae, fly egg, pupal casing, maggot, maggots, exoskeleton, hemolymph, eclosion, PBS, science, wild, wildlife, documentary, how do flies reproduce, how do flies lay maggots, house flies life cycle

Id: uDkw0txlWgg

Length: 5min 12sec (312 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 18 2024