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Flies
Questions about fruit flies, horse flies, common house flies, or any other insect with a single pair of wings.
2,194 Questions
Why do flies fly around aimlessly in a room?
Flies may fly around aimlessly in a room due to their innate behavior to search for food sources or suitable breeding sites. They may also be attracted to light or heat sources, leading them to fly around in an attempt to navigate towards it. Additionally, changes in air currents or air pressure within a room can further disorient flies and cause them to fly erratically.
For the same reason frogs hop. That's what they do. Actually, they are similar to a mosquito, and want blood, so they bite.
Do Tse tse flies carry viruses?
yes the most common that they carry is in a parisite that they carry. it is sleeping sickness.
If the ATG codon is mutated to an ATA codon, the firefly may still be able to emit light. If the amino acid it codes for stays the same, the fly will emit light.
Flies have a sticky substance in their legs, so when they sit on dirty things, because of sticky substance , germs get sticked to their legs and in this way , they carry germs
Scorpions will eat anything that is smaller than them. This includes flies, crickets and even cockroaches. This includes maggots.
normal flying speed is 500-700 km/hr. landing speed is 300 km/hr more than any other fighter.
horse flies are great at pollinating plants and are also a vital part of the food chain, the larvae is a great meal for hedgehogs, shrews and other small mammals, the fly its self is a good meal for bats and birds.
Earth Orbit: 17,500 mph
Trans Lunar Injection: 24,000 mph
Speed entering Lunar Gravitation Influence: 2,200 mph
Houseflies and similar insects:
Not everything has a purpose. There are causes and effects, but no purpose. Everything just exists and there is not any reason for it. Reason is an invention of later man's civilization, but not connected to the universe in any way. This reasoning power was developed from necessity to survive and has resulted in Man thinking that there must be reasons for things, but that is error. Man-made things can be said to have a purpose since they were developed by him for a purpose. Even the power to reason has been given a purpose by man, but the existence of natural things have no purpose whatsoever. They just exist.
One could say that the purpose of a fly is to make more flies and be close to making sense because that is what flies do, But it really avoids the question rather than answers it.
If you think that flies have a purpose, then their purpose would be as decomposers. They are among the first creatures to discover excrement and rotting flesh. The flies mate and lay eggs in the decaying matter and they hatch into larvae (maggots). Then the larvae grows into adults and the process continues. The reason the flies lay their eggs in excrement and corpses is because those are excellent food supplies. After wild or feral animals and flies remove the bulk of a corpse or other rotting flesh, the bacteria and worms (besides fly larvae) take over. Then nothing is left around to spread disease.
Pants fly:
The purpose is to make pants easier to put on. It is also so males can urinate (or even have sex) with their pants on.
