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Fly larva with a fake termite face can infiltrate termite mounds and socialize

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Fly larva with a fake termite face can infiltrate termite mounds and socialize

Now, for the first time ever, an international study led by the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE), a joint center of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) (the Spanish National Research Council [CSIC]) and Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), in conjunction with the Botanical Institute of Barcelona (IBB, CSIC-CMCNB), has discovered a species of blow fly (family Calliphoridae) whose larvae infiltrate colonies of harvester termites.

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