Could flies be getting tougher?

beast775

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I dont like flies,there the only insect i kill.but ive been smashing them like a madman,and even when i see them with smashed legs wing etc and think ive won the battle they just start flying again almost magically,could it be years of getting swatted with the tried true flyswatter and have adapted? or am i getting older and weaker? something seems fishy in this senario :lol: .but man they are madmax style.guess i need to step up and try making a video.Thoughts?
 
Flies!

Each year for me starts off the same. But as it progresses, the flies catch on to the killing methodry.
Ie: kill a single fly with a swatter one day, and the next day that somabitch flie won't come within arms&swatter reach. It's almost like every flie is just a reincarnation of the last victim?
They also seem to learn to watch your eyes. I would if I were them. But that doesn't help when you get good at the no-look backhand. (got all 3 so far this season that way),

They seem to go out of their way to annoy and pester too don't they?

As far as them getting tougher, it's certainly possible, but it sounds like you're experiencing a terminator scenario? God only knows what these things are capable of-
T_800_terminator_by_fastleppard.jpg

Oh man, I think my mind just got blown. It found the internet!!!

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beast775 said:
I dont like flies...Thoughts?
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If you'll observe, when flies land on a vertical screen, they turn appropriately, and then walk upward. (I learned this in a Scientific American article some time ago. I have confirmed this myself.) Thus, you can make a louvered set of screens so that an upward walk puts the flies outside. I've seen this proposed, but I've never seen anyone do it.
Naturally, this kind of screen arrangement won't keep other insects out.
 
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The existence of the fly is proof of God, and this is purgatory.
 
Okaaaay, picture this:

So these guys are out there using steroids. They get drunk, get in a fight. Bleed a little. Flies land in it. When the guys are done the go off in the bushes because guys like that can't be bothered to use restrooms. Flies land in that, too. So you realize that everything the flies have landed in so far is laced with steroids. . . .

I've been a few places that have ALWAYS had big, tough, flying tanks. I'd sure hate to think of them on steroids. Oops, I just did.

Thank gawd for the 2nd Amendment, eh?
 
With the prevailing wind where I live, flies come in through the front door and wait on the rear screen to be let out, very rarely does one make it all the way upstairs. There do seem to be more numerous this year, possibly because of the late season rain we just had. I really hate it when they get into the kitchen window box and camp out in there, because it's hard to swat them or shoo them out of that space above the sink. The friendly Mr. Spider living in there gets a few, but eventually wifey wants him gone too, especially if he's a creepy-looking one. :lol:
 
Australian flies are chronic in summer.
Had them lined up on the edge of my sandwich as I'm eating it.
It's like watching a third world African documentary in some places here they stick to you and won't go.
A guest staying over from Europe sent us a card from his stay in Alice Springs (central Australia) which was a picture of hundreds of flies and the caption "flies bloody flies".
A mate works for Santos on a gas installation surrounded by cattle land and they just give up on killing flies and just rock their heads around, from time to time to loosen them off.

Horse flies have got to be the toughest though, I you don't get bitten and hit them with a rolled up newspaper, they just get up and off they go.
 
The fingers said:
... The friendly Mr. Spider living in there gets a few, but eventually wifey wants him gone too, especially if he's a creepy-looking one. :lol:
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In order to limit my ecological footprint on the ecosystem*, I try to coexist with as much of the natural flora and fauna as possible. If the creature doesn't normally bite or otherwise harm humans or dogs, I won't bother with killing it. I allow spiders wherever I can. I feed the feral cats. If birds want to nest in the rafters, fine. For a while, I lived with a rather fearsome (to others) bee hive beneath the fascia boards. No one ever got stung. But the hive died off on its own after a season cycle.

*I make this statement from a philosophical framework as well as a practical one.
 
There's two flies that are harrassing me right now, no matter how much I try to project goodwill and peace on them. I didn't try to sho or swat, but they are relentless and repeatedly return to any areas that cause a reaction.
Just brought the swatter to within my reach, in preparation of a kill, and they've 'buzzed' off.

When the season continues, they will have 'evolved' enough to pester and evade even when I'm holding the swatter, ready to swing. They learn actions and movements, but it's somehow reset each season. Each season is like one individual life for all the house flies I encounter.
Is that too far out?

@the fingers-
"I don't know why,
she swallowed the fly. . . ."
 
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