- Most flies avoid water as it means drowning or predators, but alkali flies, flies living around the high pH hypersaline predator-free Mono Lake in California, have evolved hairy, waxy bodies and dive underwater on purpose, to lay eggs and eat algae. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/science/diving-flies-mono-lake.html 3 comments science
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