Common Housefly From Egg to Adult in 14 Days- Time-Lapse

[bosh8888]

where is Majin Buu??

[Tralocor]

This was seriously interesting :D I was wearing earphones, so the buzzinb sounded really creepy in my ears LOL But great video, you must be pretty patient :)

[webiocosm]

@Tralocor - hey thanks. Patience is a must for time-lapse photography. I am a complete novice when it comes to photography, but my extreme love for the concept of 'change over extended periods of time' has inspired some fun and interesting projects. Funny that you mentioned the earphones, a few others have mentioned similar experiences.

[awex1112]

are all those houseflies? or some were bowflies?

[jarosikzero]

I came home one night to discover about 15-20 flies on my bedroom window. Absolutely puzzled as to where they came from I decided to properly tidy up and found about 20-30 of those pupae pods on the floor under the wardrobe. This entire process took place without me even knowing, which disgusts me to a degree. Rest assured though, the whole place has been completely blitzed clean, hoovered and bleached. Twice.

[holycow343]

anyone know how long can they survive without food or water, i caught this horse fly larve in a jar and left it for 1 week so far and it is still alive

[RedcFox]

I thought that was bread

[Chihang256]

One guy failed to become an egg and died on top of the sand bowl.

[Skattberg02]

this is very fascinating ;o

[horneddragon]

how did you get the pupateing fly into the container...?

[webiocosm]

@horneddragon - I don't remember. I am pretty sure I didn't touch them with my hands. I would have remembered that.

[shadowdemons117]

is this easy to do? like the preparations, was getting the flies to lay eggs easy?

[webiocosm]

@shadowdemons117 - Yes it was fairly easy. All I did to get the flies to lay the eggs was leave the chicken out overnight. Then I placed the chicken in the clear plastic container. I used an emptied ant farm container. I covered the small holes on the side with plastic and poked tiny holes in it so the maggots would not get out but would allow oxygen in. The maggots that I left with the chicken didn't pupate, but the ones that I placed in the dry container with no food began to pupate.

[KTC12490]

i know that chicken smelled horrible lol

[freedfighter96]

I like how the last fly never gets completely out LMAO

[yumisy111]

Uggg creepy.... But... Pretty interesting

[leslyluxe]

was the container closed? i wonder how the maggots got in. :S

[webiocosm]

@leslyluxe - I left the chicken out in the open overnight. Then I placed it in the closed container you see in the video.

[WishingBabyX]

Damn! XD When the maggots are 'dropping' down I was like "ITS RAINING MAGGOTS!!!!!' xd

[logangamer]

I did this once, but in a jar, and they ate a dead shrew, and I didn't tape it.

[adultdating100]

thumbs up Short Clip

[maddicali]

Baby fly: Finally im alive yay i can meet everyone.

Before pupal case: Here i come new me!

Fly: Finally im a adult fly *splat*!

[kmbk2]

nasty why not just kill the nasty freeking things bfore they hatch come on get real these are pests not anything cool about letting a fly or baby maggot live gross i just found some in my kitchen i am highly disgusted thanks for the education but please kill the damn fliies and their babies now NOW!!!

[Hannah76751]

Yummy.....

[WulframII]

This video is sooo much more bearable without the sound...

[CurlyTopsRicoa]

now i know

[TrueDenver]

Thank you for posting this!

[bigflytrap]

What kind of enclosure did you use? What about the smell? I want to breed my own houseflies to feed my animals.

[webiocosm]

@bigflytrap - That was an ant farm container that I used to let the maggots eat the chicken and then I moved some of them to an old vase with the lid covered for them to pupate. The smell was not really a problem because it was in a well ventilated storage area. 

[snje11]

@bigflytrap

what animals do you have?

[benjamin656564]

0:14 - 050 RAINING MAGGOTS!

[poukichi]

I hate flies. I would do this just for the pleasure of frying them on an electric racket.

[itsmeandyou1207]

damn so gross really really gross

[ilovecrybabydepp]

yucK! ahah

[awsidney]

Crap I've seen some blackish rice looking things around my house sometimes. i think I saw a maggot crawling once to.

[Juanisdurrr]

i see them in my garbage bin ! -_- then i bust out a lighter and some dw-40's xD

[Drallop]

thanks for the stupid disconnected sound effects

[Juice1001001001]

when i started watching this video i thought it was a clip from the world cup

[HardbeatAcolyte]

@Juice1001001001 Lol

[FilmerOfBobcats]

They certainly are efficient, aren't they? I had a bath towel that I'd soaked up some blood from meat and tossed outside til morning when I could launder it. By the time I got up there were two silver dollar sized mounds of yellow eggs (house flies) that were each about 1/2" thick. I flung it out into the pasture where I'll never have to see or touch it again!

[tall32guy]

haha! All the larva action made it move across the bottom of the box!!! Funny!

[dragonballd3]

2 seconds after befoming a fly.......

*SPLAT!*

[Musicano88]

@dragonballd3 lolololololol

[Born2bRedeemed]

Okay, so the maggots harden, then the fly emerges?

[webiocosm]

pretty much.

[Born2bRedeemed]

Interesting....Thank you.

For an REALLY intersting visual, try putting a bunch of maggots on a pile of white rice.

[odiouspariah]

This is pretty cool, check out my maggot experiment as well...it's not as professional as this one, but i think it's good

[jiyefuuu]

although i must thank you for the videos, but why are u keeping flies??

to feed maggots for fishes or something?

[webiocosm]

That was the only time I have ever done it.  It was just to make the video.

[jiyefuuu]

oh.. u have guts.. i would've freaked out at the sight of maggots. haahhah... thks anyway

[watkinskevan]

when they hached my ears itched cause i have head ohines on

[yeeen123]

Me too, i wear earpiece lol. At the beginning of the video too. Studying abt Forensic Entomology for my Forensic Science module =P

[Reader90909]

Amazing how they move about. Can any tell me how a fly got into my cheese it was in a closed cubboard the cheese was open thou if i remeber correctly... now it has small maggots.

[MrCARC]

if you see flys in your house or other place where are the maggots?

[metron98]

flies lay eggs in food or fecal material, i.e. SHIT

or in wounds or dead decaying animals

[watermelonorange]

they grow up so fast :'(

[Treemeadow]

XD

I felt sorry for that little one that dried up

[mazdamcblaze]

shit!! yuck!! maggotss!!! bzzzzrrrt! xD

[julio1ufo]

Dude!