On a summer day, you opened the window to cool the house a little, and as you opened it, buzzing sounds are heard, which means there are houseflies. While you were sitting there, you felt a needle prick in your neck, so there is a mosquito. If a few slices of the watermelon you cut are left on the plate, the fruit fly will immediately fill up. As can be understood from these situations, of which we can give countless more examples, fly species are an inseparable part of our lives.
Of course, fly species will be a part of our lives because they existed millions of years ago before we were around. Of course, they have evolved over time, but some still carry viruses that are deadly to humanity. Others just prey on our mid-range food, such as grazers. Let’s take a closer look at some very interesting information about fly species, many of which you will hear for the first time.
Unusual information about fly species:
- Fly species will not easily disappear from our lives.
- It’s easy to catch deadly diseases from flies.
- Houseflies spit on our food.
- The flies’ taste buds are in a slightly different place.
- Have you ever wondered why there are flies?
- Once upon a time, murders were illuminated by flies.
- Some fly species become friends with orphans.
- Flies can even see behind them.
- Even in space there are flies.
- You don’t want to mess with the world’s largest fly.
Fly species will not easily disappear from our lives:
Of course, we all know the saying that if there are many flies around, the swamp must be drained, but when we look at the natural process, we can say that flies will not disappear easily because they multiply at an incredible rate. A fruit fly lives for about two weeks and lays eggs every three days. It lays about 500 eggs at a time. The housefly, on the other hand, can live up to two months if conditions are favorable and lays about 150 eggs. Here you calculate the numbers.
It’s easy to get deadly diseases from flies:
Although it varies according to the species, flies generally spend a lot of time on garbage dumps and carrion, and even lay eggs there. As such, they are exposed to all kinds of viruses, microbes and bacteria. When they come and bite us or are put in our food, they transmit at least 65 diseases, including deadly types such as dysentery, diarrhea, cholera, typhoid, leprosy, anthrax, tularemia, tuberculosis, polio, to humans.
Houseflies spit on our food:
Yes, as if whistling isn’t enough, they spit on our food! Of course, they don’t do it for fun. Houseflies do not have a mouth as we know them, so they cannot bite or chew. They release a kind of enzyme with their saliva and thus the solid food becomes liquefied. Liquid food is also eaten with pleasure by the housefly. What remains to us is a spit-like waste, who knows what microbes it has on it.
The flies’ taste buds are in a slightly different place:
The fly has no mouth, no tongue; If you ask how they understand that what they are placed on is a meal, the answer is hidden in their feet. Flies taste the object they land on with their feet and thus understand whether it is a meal or not. After realizing that there is food, eating actions such as spitting and stinging come into play.
Have you ever wondered why there are flies?
If you ask why they are living with a different problem with a voice, a different problem with an appearance, a problem with a microbe, the answer lies in nature itself. Carrion flies and meat flies lay eggs in the carcasses of dead animals. The larvae feed on these animals, allowing the carcass to mix with the soil. Different types of flies often prefer droppings. Thanks to the flies and larvae feeding on the feces, the organic parts in the feces are distributed to the plants, fungi and bacteria. That’s how this whole process goes on.
Once upon a time, murders were illuminated by flies:
When we look at the oldest records, we come across 13th century China. Detectives of this period were using flies to illuminate the murders. When they found a corpse, they determined how long ago the corpse had died by looking at the density of larvae and flies on it and conducted the investigation accordingly. Although, of course, much more modern methods are used, the density of flies and larvae on the corpse is a very important sign for forensic experts even today.
Some types of flies become friends with orphans:
We said that a fly lands in the dirt, lands in the feces, lands on the carrion, spreads disease, but of course, this does not apply to all of them. For example, bee flies and midges feed on plants. Moreover, the plants that these species feed on are not liked by bees. The flies that come on these plants carry the pollen in their bodies, enabling them to reproduce. So much so that if there were no sandflies, there would be no such thing as chocolate, because the pollinator of the cocoa plant is not bees, but midges.
Flies can even see behind them:
House flies, which we often encounter in our homes, have exactly 4,000 eyes. Each of these tiny eyes captures a separate image, and these images are combined in the brain and turned into a meaningful whole. Even more interestingly, this eye structure gives houseflies a 360-degree field of view. This means that houseflies can even see behind them. So remember that he sees you before he takes the newspaper roll and kills a fly.
The flies’ visual systems, which consist of thousands of small eyes, also accelerate their reaction time. A human brain processes an average of about 60 images per second. A housefly brain processes about 250 images per second. In other words, the flies see that you are trying to put a newspaper roll on their head, and they process the image before you lower that hand, activating the escape reflex.
Even in space there are flies:
Damn these flies, since they have taken over the world, then we can’t get rid of flies even if we say let’s escape to space because NASA sent a lot of fruit flies to the International Space Station in 2014. Since fruit fly genetics and human genetics are 77 percent similar, the effects of space travel on humans are examined through these flies. Of course, they just stay somewhere in the station, otherwise we won’t be landing on Mars and hunting flies again. Of course who knows?
You don’t want to mess with the world’s largest fly:
The size of houseflies varies between 5 mm and 8 mm on average. The world’s largest fly is also a giant. Named the timber fly because it lays eggs on dying trees in Central America and South America, a fly species can average 8 cm in size. Despite its giant size, it is not harmful to humans or animals.
We talked about interesting information about fly species that have been on earth for millions of years and whose buzz we have heard since the first days of humanity. We think that everyone reading this article wanted to have a solid mosquito net installed in their home.
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