I hate flies and wasps. Wasps can sting, and flies are just dirty; filthy dirty! The germs you can get from a fly landing on you is not a thought to dwell on. They puke their stomach acids onto food, and it is digested there (outside of the body) before it is internally absorbed. I hate them touching me, and I especially hate them coming near my face. Anyone else hate these dirty little critters?
Flies are bothersome, yes, but at least you only have to put up with it for a day. As for wasps, I have no experience with them.
let us not discriminate all flies. first of all, if the fly never landed first on something unhygienic such as shit, then you should be ok. second there are so many different kinds of flies and not all of them want to sit on humans. hover flies are just plainly my favourite flies
yeah SpuriousMonkey. They get mistaken for wasps too. The thing with flies is they are sure to have been somewhere dirty, at some time or another, or somewhere where another fly that has been somewhere dirty has been.
I don't actually particularly fancy mosquitos, especially here in finland because finnish mosquitos seem to prefer foreign blood.
Most disturbing when you watch donation-campaign movies for children of the third world and you watch this little african kid with a small piece of bread, surrounded by desertflies flies flies and more flies that are attracted to the moist of their tears... I say, don't give them bread but fly-squashers! so that they have some proteine rich food for their caddle...
And their bites hurt!! I used to get bitten by them when I lived in another country. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! What?? That isn't funny, if it's supposed to be.
The scariest are bot flies. Ewww! just thinking about them makes my skin crawl. read this if you want to puke! WARNING! the information contained on this link can be somewhat disturbing and can cause feelings of ickyness. You have been warned http://www.kidzwerld.com/site/p580.htm
I have to agree with Spurious Monkey on the syrphid flies. They are also my favorites. I think they inspired the engineering of helicopters or VTOL's...they seem to be curious creatures too. Yes bot and warble flies are probably the worst. We had a cat with a warble fly on it one time. Usually they attack livestock, not pets. (Um, warble flies attack livestock, not cats attacking livestock, thinking of that cat chow commercial with the cat chasing the water buffalo). Did you know that some wasps are beneficial, laying their eggs on the backs of tomato hornworm caterpillars?
The old British colonialists had a saying: The first year in Africa, you will throw away your glass of beer, because there is a fly floating in it. The second year, you will drink the beer, because you are thursty, but you will leave the fly in the glass. The third year, you will drink the beer and swallow the fly because you are goddamn hungry and thursty.
