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A teeny pseudoscorpion, Chernetini sp., grabbing on to a fly's legs to catch a free ride. This is known as phoresy - the pseudoscorpion uses the fly to travel to new environments, because doing so on its own would be incredibly slow.

There's a larger pseudoscorpion the other side of the fly - you can sort of make it out through the fly's wing. I normally don't pay a lot of attention to flies but this one's mad struggles to detach the pseudoscorpions caught my eye.

Closeup shot of two pseudoscorpions, Chernetini sp., grabbing on to a fly's legs to catch a free ride - an example of phoresis.

#nature #macro #arachnid #auswildlife #pseudoscorpion #phoresy

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