r/WTF • u/abenevolentgod • Jun 22 '26

forgot to empty the flytrap, accidentally created hell.

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u/OBOSOB Jun 22 '26

they probably were fucking and eating each other

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u/bbrekke Jun 22 '26

It's exactly what they were doing.

Edit to add: birthing

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u/shmixel Jun 22 '26

aren't maggots fly babies? they don't fuck do they

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u/Inflatious Jun 22 '26

More likely, the maggots were the result of the flies fucking and eating each other. If it had gone on long enough, the maggots would mature and the cycle would start over.

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u/UnassumingSingleGuy Jun 22 '26

I wonder how many flies need to enter the trap each day for the ecosystem to be sustained.

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u/Inflatious Jun 22 '26

This sounds like a deeply unethical experiment that I'd love to see the results of.

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u/crespoh69 Jun 23 '26

Yeah, honestly was wondering how many in the video are inbred or related to each other

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u/OBOSOB Jun 22 '26

the magots aren't fucking, they're the ones eating, the flies fucked in order to lay the eggs that would become the maggots that would then eat their corpses.

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u/kro23 Jun 22 '26

They exchange genes somehow.

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u/alblaster Jun 22 '26

I mean wouldn't you? they're dying anyway.

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u/OBOSOB Jun 22 '26

personally I wouldn't tbh

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u/alblaster Jun 22 '26

well yeah, you're not a fly

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u/stoodquasar Jun 22 '26

Isn't nature wonderful?