August 17, 2016
Houseflies are very common worldwide and are often associated with human activity.
We have found some interesting and creepy facts about flies:
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There are 120,000 species of flies |
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Eliminating 1 female fly can reduce fly populations by up to 500 flies/year. |
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Flies are the only insects with two wings.All others have four. |
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The average house fly lives for 21 days. |
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The average house fly is thought to carry 2 million bacteria on its body. |
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Housefly’s feet are 10 million times more sensitive to the taste of sugar than the human tongue. |
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Houseflies walk upside down using glue-oozing toe pads. |
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To land upside down on the ceiling, flies grab it with their front legs and then somersault the rest of the body over. |
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A fly beats its wings 200 times a second, 3 times faster than a hummingbird. |
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The favourite colour of houseflies is red, followed by orange, black, violet, green, blue, white and yellow. |
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Flies can lay 200 – 3000 eggs in a lifetime. A female will lay 75-150 eggs per batch and may lay several batches over a few days. Fly eggs hatch into maggots within 24. |
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Flies can carry typhoid, cholera, diarrhoea, amoebic dysentry, T.B, anthrax, gangrene, bubonic plague, leprosy, scarlet fever and yellow fever. |
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Flies don’t sting or bite, they stab. |
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Despite having 4000 lenses in each eye, flies have bad vision, but are good at detecting movement. A fly’s vision is only sharp for 60 -90 cm. |
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