More Than You Ever Wanted To Know About Flies and Fly Swatters
The Fly: An Introduction and More
- The house fly, Musca domestica Linnaeus
- All about the common house fly: Introduction - Distribution - Description and Life Cycle - Damage and Medical Importance - Economic Threshold - Management - Selected References
- Slow Motion Flying
- Using super-fast video cameras, Michael Dickinson, a bioengineer from Caltech, discovered why flies are so hard to swat.
- Why Fruit Flies Prefer Fizzy Drinks
- We know they enjoy old fruit, but why carbonated beverages?
- Fly Identification
- Close-up pictures of many species of flies.
- Flies And Other Diptera
- Flies, gnats, maggots, midges, mosquitoes, keds, bots, etc. are all common names for members of the order Diptera. More about this order...
The Fly (1958)
The Life Cycle Of A House Fly
These are the four distinct stages in an average house fly's life:Egg: Depending on the size of a female house fly, she can lay up to 500 eggs in a three to four day period. Eggs are white in color and are usually less than half and inch in size.
Larvae: Larvae are commonly referred to as maggots. Maggots emerge from the eggs within eight to 20 hours of being laid. Larvae begin eating whatever they can find in the area they were laid. They prefer warm, moist environments to grow in.
Pupa: After about four to 10 days, a maggot will move to higher, drier ground to move into the pupa stage of its life. This process take about three to six days and is where the maggot encases inself in a reddish-brown skin where the final stages of development take place.
Adult: Once the adult house fly hatches from the pupal stage, it has an approximate life span of 15 to 30 days. Females are able to start producing eggs after two days of life and will continue to lay eggs for about a month. Female house flys are usually larger than the males.
Two male flies are buzzing around, cruising for good-looking females. One spots a real cutie sitting on a pile of cow manure and dives down towards her. "Pardon me" he asks, turning on his best charm, "but is this stool taken?"
Anatomy Of A Fly
Through A Fly's Eyes
One reasons a Fly, whether on the wing or at rest, is so hard to hit is the nature of its eyes. Humans have two lenses - one in each eye, the Housefly has eight thousand lenses - four thousand in each eye. Bulging outward from the sides of its head, the thousands of six-sided lenses fit together like honeycomb cells, and provide wide-angle vision unknown to humans; because the Fly has no eyelids it sleeps with its eyes open. Flies in Kids' Books
Scientists have estimated that houseflies carry around 1,941,000 different kinds of bacteria.
The Fly (1986)
Fly Fishing
No, it's not fishing for flies
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Fly Fishing Video Instruction -- Casting
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This is the first in a series of fly fishing instructional lenses. This lens deals with the fundamentals of the cast. If you have ever fly fished, you know that the cast is the primary skill needed to catch fish. These 9 videos will give you the inst...
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Fly Fishing For Beginner | Have Some Flies On The Side
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Rods, reels, dry flies, nymphs or streamers? It can all seem a bit much to start with so hopefully Fly Fishing For Beginner can help point you in the right direction. There's no stopping you know. Once you get the fly fishing bug - your hooked for l...
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Make Your Own Fly Fishing Lures - And Other Fly Fishing Advice for Beginners
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This lens focuses on the excellent sport of fly fishing, with special focus on how to make your own fly fishing lures, as well emphasis on fly fishing for beginners, although there is some general information on fishing and fishing lures, as well. En...
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Fly Tying Videos For Beginners
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I have been a fly fishing enthusiast for years and have finally decided to take up the art of tying my own flies. Fly Tying is one of those hobbies that anyone who has been fly fishing for long usually decides to learn. I have compiled several fly ty...
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FLY FISHING AT IT'S BEST !
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Fly Fishing. A sport for the Gifted and Crafty.. A form of Recreation for the patient. Get your rod, reel, boat and flies --> IT'S A GREAT DAY TO GO FISHING!!! Let me know what you think about my Lens by Rating it.If you like it, thanks! Mak...
Q: What do you call a fly with no wings?
A: A walk
Crime-fighting Flies
- Insect Testimony
- Forensic science has unbelievable ways to solve criminal cases. Here a a few cases where the testimony submitted came from flies and other insects.
- Forensic Flies
- Gain an appreciation for the emerging field of forensic entomology as it applies to those individuals closely associated with the processing of death scenes. Learn the proper procedures for identifying, collecting and preserving probative entomological samples.
- Insects and Flies in Forensic Medicine
- An important factor in estimating the time of death of the deceased can sometimes be their surroundings; more over what creatures are present in those surroundings. Many insects and flies are synonymous with the decaying of a corpse and from the point of view of a pathologist - accompanied by a forensic scientist - are blatant indicators in the how, why and when a corpse came to meet it's end.
Venus Fly Trap
Venus fly trap - The Private Life of Plants - David Attenborough - BBC wildlife
David Attenborough looks at how this well known carnivorous plant captures its prey. From the BBC. Watch more Attenborough from BBC Worldwide here: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D66D4CFB9402A981
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