Crazy.
January 17, 2012
I was watching Planet Earth, and this part about one of the species of fresh water lake flies really surprised me.
They spend a long time under deep water like a larva to ‘mature’, then they surface and are transformed into flies – only to mate. The scene looks like smoke coming up from the lake. Once they mate, they drop their offspring into the water to start the cycle again … and then they die.
WHAT!? What is the purpose of this? What is the significance of their existence? They have no interaction with any other species whatsoever, and doesn’t produce or create or do anything except breathe, grow, transform, mate, die. Most living things in this world don’t even know it exists, and yet, there they are…doing their own thing. Crazy!!
Here’s a shortened version of this section in the documentary of them mating.
