World's Smallest Flies Have Been Found, Living in an Ant's Head

It has been found a kind of fly with a body size no larger than a grain of salt. Flies of Thailand is also had a way of life that is interesting and scary.

Body length of only 0.4 millimeters, making the fly as the record holder of the world's smallest flies, but not the smallest insect in the world, because the record is still owned by a kind of moth whose size is similar to human eggs (0.14 mm). Comparison of the size of a fly named Euryplatea nanaknihali with normal flies could we see in the image below.

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Although the body is super small, these flies have a way of life that is more extreme than normal flies. Their life cycle goes like this:

Beginning, they were born to be deposited on the body of an ant by their mothers. When hatched, the larvae will move in the direction of the ant's head, eat the muscle tissue of the mouth of the ant, and then devour the ant's brain. Ants who had lost brain will run without direction and without a goal for two weeks. Ant's head is then dislodged after the larvae had spent the membrane between the head and body of the ant. The larvae then settle on the severed heads of ants for 2 weeks to develop into adult flies.

luckily, we are not an ant.