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Fly regurgitating saliva

According to Barber and Starnes (1949), fly regurgitation "is a process of digestion during which the food is brought up from the crop bit by bit and is mixed with saliva before being passed on to the digestive tract."

 

Nice.

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Uploaded on August 5, 2006
Taken on August 5, 2006