What Flies Really Do When They Land on Food

flies are everywhere we go literally it's believed that flies originated in Asia but these days they live everywhere people live only excluding Antarctica and maybe a couple of islands flies have traveled the oceans following humans but they never go anywhere alone in the wilderness and deserts where humans are absent you won't find any flies we know them well but we all have that unanswered question about Flies why do flies rub their limps turns out they just clean them it's this simple a fly has hair all over its body the hairs on the limbs serve as

detectors for flying finding food and doing whatever else the fly business is they have to keep their limbs clean at all times so they just rub them every time they get a chance their limbs are sensitive and they serve more than one purpose apparently the limbs have taste receptors so the Flies can taste with their feet they can land on their potential meal and wander around it giving it a good taste before consuming it flies can't chew so they're on an all liquid diet and drink their food if the food they have picked as their

next meal is solid they have a special ritual to make it edible a fly regurgitates digestive juices on their soon-to-beat food and those juices break it into the smallest pieces that can be drunk also spitting out those juices frees up space in their stomachs for new food quite often flies sit on our food they can appear harmless but it's not exactly true first remember that they spill out those juices onto your food which is already gross enough but there's more you have to keep in mind that flies land everywhere and it's not always flowers but

all the gross stuff as well and flies especially like that said gross stuff like rotting Foods dumpsters and even worse so their limbs collect all the germs and microbes from those places when a fly lands on your food it transfers those germs to your meal some of the microbes they transfer can even cause diseases like cholera and typhoid there was even an experiment once made to demonstrate how it works there were two bulls one contained a red powder of some kind of spice and the other Bowl had white rice in it flies were let in

and they would migrate from the spice bowl to The Rice Bowl and back soon enough rice got covered with red spice now replace harmless spice with something grosser and rice with your dinner so you should always cover your food to make sure some fly doesn't take a walk on it and step and spit all over it if you're eating make sure you swat them away but don't worry if some annoying fly manages to sit on your sandwich for a second before you kick it out no need to throw the sandwich out if you acted fast

then you're safe also experts say that an average healthy human has a strong enough immune system to repel parasites even though flies are gross and annoying bugging around and tickling you with their limbs they do serve some good they're responsible for pollinating flowers they collect nectar from them which gets stuck to their hair on their bodies and then they pollinate the next flower when landing on it also if flies didn't exist our planet would be even dirtier flies recycle some of the human waste flies are also an important part of the ecosystem since their food

for Birds spiders lizards frogs and many more without flies they'd all go extinct [Music] apart from flies having the superpower of tasting with their feet there are other interesting facts about them too they could walk on both horizontal and vertical surfaces and even upside down they can do it because each one of a fly's feet has two pads with tiny hair and those hairs produce a glue-like substance that allows flies to have an excellent grip flies have unique eyes which have a large complex of three thousand to six thousand simpler eyes within each of the

two compound eyes a fly's eyes don't move but its vision is nearly 360 Degrees they can see behind their back so wherever you are a fly definitely sees you and every other danger with one or a few of their thousands of monitors in addition to the two compound eyes flies also have three simple Eyes located on their foreheads which serve as a compass and allow a fly to navigate foreign they also have an amazing reaction time ever wondered why it's so hard to swat a fly well to a fly we're sloths that's because they see

things in slow motion compared to us species have different perceptions of speed the speed we see will be twice faster for a turtle and it will be four times slower for a flock turn a video on at .25 times speed and imagine someone approaching you with this speed well that's how a fly sees you so yes it has enough time to escape a fly has just one set of wings but in addition to their pair of wings they also have so-called halters which allow them to take off fast millions of years ago halters were serving

as a second pair of wings now they help to take off and also to balance the air if a fly loses one of the halters it'll start flying in circles and if both of them go missing it won't be able to fly anymore at all also even though their wings beat up to one thousand times per minute they're also very slow Flyers only reaching the speed of 4.5 miles per hour if a fly lives in an urban area with enough people add garbage around it doesn't fly far away from the place of residence only having

a territory of a bit over 3 200 feet rural flies are far more explorative and they can fly away up to seven miles at a time fly doesn't live long its lifetime is just around 30 days but during this time they lay from 500 to 800 eggs each on average but it's not 1 000 at once it's several goes throughout their life with 75 to 100 eggs at once the eggs hatch within 24 hours and it takes a week in total for an egg to turn into a grown fly and then the cycle continues in

colder climates this process can take twice as long a Timber fly is the biggest fly species which lives in Central and South America they can grow up to 3.15 inches also flies have beds or more like their favorite spot to stay and sleep they have a comfy place somewhere close to their source of food and they come there to rest at night if you ever had your house flooded with flies here are a few tips for you to reduce their population first it's important to understand what they're attracted to they're attracted to other flies and

even to the smell of flies living there and flies have an amazing sense of smell so if you hosted even one flight expect to get more guests if you have any traces of flies like fly specs they'll find you too make sure to wash your walls and surfaces next flies love garbage and rotting produce they lay eggs in rotten food and meat so make sure to keep your food in the fridge cover it and keep the trash in tightly sealed containers and of course take out the trash regularly flies have a sweet tooth or more

like a sweet foot since they taste with their feet and they love syrup and other sugary liquids they're also fond of soda and vinegar so make sure to keep those stored and always wipe after yourself if you spill something lastly they like to hide and live in dirty and leaky drinks they eat the bacteria from there so always clear your drains and repair any leaks right away also it'll help to seal all the cracks in your floor seal it and walls if you have any that's one of their ways to get into the house that's

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