Deep Look: A Tsetse Fly Births One Enormous Milk-Fed Baby

4 minutes 54 seconds

DCMP is transitioning to player-based accessibility features, allowing for customization of captions, description, language, and playback speed. Learn more about these features and how they can be beneficial in an educational setting.

Learn More

Now Playing As: Captioned (English) (change)

Adult tsetse flies feed their larva milk while the larva is growing inside of them. This reproductive strategy is extremely rare in the insect world. Only a few other insects are known to grow larvae that they feed with milk. Part of the "Deep Look" series.

Media Details

Runtime: 4 minutes 54 seconds

Topic: Science
Subtopic: Biology, Insects, Science Experiments
Grade/Interest Level: 7 - 12
Release Year: 2020
Producer/Distributor: PBS Digital Studios
Series: Deep Look

Recently Added

Language / Accessibility Settings

Audio

Captions

Browse Topics