A Tsetse Fly Births One Enormous Milk-Fed Baby | Deep Look

Mammalian moms, you’re not alone! A female tsetse fly pushes out a single squiggly larva almost as big as herself, which she nourished with her own milk. Please join our community on Patreon! SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! DEEP LOOK is a ultra-HD (4K) short video series created by KQED San Francisco and presented by PBS Digital Studios. See the unseen at the very edge of our visible world. Explore big scientific mysteries by going incredibly small. --- Mammalian moms aren’t the only ones to deliver babies and feed them milk. Tsetse flies, the insects best known for transmitting sleeping sickness, do it too. A researcher at the University of California, Davis is trying to understand in detail the unusual way in which these flies reproduce in order to find new ways to combat the disease, which has a crippling effect on a huge swath of Africa. When it’s time to give birth, a female tsetse fly takes less than a minute to push out a squiggly yellowish larva almos