'Terrible hairy fly' rediscovered in Kenya

"Scientists in Kenya have located one of the world's rarest and oddest-looking flies after a long hunt for the insect, which has been described as the 'terrible hairy fly'.

The yellow-haired fly was first recorded in 1933, and again in 1948. Since then, at least half a dozen expeditions have visited a site between the towns of Thika and Garissa to try to find it.

Incapable of flight and partial to breeding in bat faeces, the fly is thought to live only in the bat-filled cleft of a single, isolated rock in the Ukazi Hills.

Mormotomyia hirsuta measures about 1cm long and, with hairy legs, looks like a spider, scientists said. It has non-functional wings that resemble miniature belt-straps, and tiny eyes."
via The Guardian/read more