This bubble is not consumed by the fly as it clambers down submerged rocks, rather its surface area is used to transpire gasses with the lakewater.

[5] The hypersaline water of their habitat is especially wet, requiring the fly to have extra hair and special waxes to maintain this air bubble.

When diving, a force equivalent to roughly 18 times the body weight of the fly is required to break through the surface tension of the water.

Adult flies do not lay eggs in the winter months due to the inability to undergo adequate development, thus creating a pause in reproduction.

When you let them go, they pop up to the surface as dry as a patent office report, and walk off as unconcernedly as if they had been educated especially with a view to affording instructive entertainment to man in that particular way.The Kucadikadi, a band of Northern Paiute people, historically used the pupae of this fly as a source of protein and fat.