Trapped Small fly on camera: VIDEO

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Small killers photographed Flytrap

29 September 2015 Updated 22:41 BST clock put

Neuroscientists have captured the first video images of a small fly killer booty in the air, in a study of how the insect chooses his objectives.

They took high-speed video images of the Killer Flies continue the fruit fly prey and different grain sizes in motion.

Apparently, the little beasts, only 4 mm long, are not very good at assessing the size of a target - so they decide to go on strike, partly based on the speed of a potential meal is the last boom.

The experiments appear in the journal Brain, Behavior and Evolution.

Videos: Trevor Wardill and Paloma Gonzalez-Bellido of the University of Cambridge

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