Interesting and Fun Facts About Flies!
Do You Think They're Harmless?
The average house fly lives about 30 days. This is good to know. If they get trapped in your house, you don't have to worry about it being around for long.
Flies lay up to 3,000 eggs in their lifetime of one month. Well, I guess if you're waiting for that fly in your house to die in a month, you have bigger problems in about 14 after the eggs are laid, you'll have up to 3,000 flies. Better hope it's a male that's trapped in your house!
Flies only have 2 wings. Most insects have 4. Their wings beat up to 200 times per second and they stop immediately when their feet land.
Flies have over 4,000 lenses per eye (they only have 2 eyes) but can't see worth a darn! Their vision may be bad but they detect movement. If you want to swat one of them, you better start out slow. They're likely to ignore you if you're not fast.
When initiating their take off, flies jump up then backwards before moving forward.
Flies lay eggs on their food. This also could possibly be your food too. Doesn't that sandwich still look yummy!
Flies have a glue like substance on the pads of their feet that help them stick to surfaces.
Flies vomit on food before eating it. They can only consume liquids so their vomit is a tool to liquefy their food. Their saliva turns the rest into complete liquid before they swallow it. Now I'd really like to have that sandwich now!
Flies defecate every 4-5 minutes. That's interesting. Hopefully they land on you in between their poop sessions.
I used to think these things were not that bad. They don't hurt you with a sting or bite but they certainly carry plenty of diseases with them, vomit, lay eggs and poop on you and/or your food. I think I'll invest in a fly swatter! Well, I hope these facts are as fun for you to read as they were for me ton research and write about.
Published by Sophie Adams
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14 Comments
Post a Commentwell thank you for that, i think im going to go eat my peanutbutter sandwhich now ;)
I think flies are disgusting
oh, & i love peanut butter.
flies are not annoying!they're cute & soft!
ready shanes comment
ty i need the info on thses little grose dumb nubs for my animal report for 3rd freade im almost done ty and make more on g bugs thats my next 1
This was very helpful. I was doing a project on flies then i came here and finished it very quickly. thank you.
-Carl Johnson
Flies are so intersting to learn about. I recently wrote a scientific paper on the habits of flies in the research that was conducted. It was lots of fun to learn about the differnt types of flies and their habits.
flies are so ugly and nasty up close
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