Follow up to my other insect question.  Yahoo! answers decides the fly's fate....?
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Put him out of his misery and kill him
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How big was that cup?! I've found dead flies in my drink, but never, never a dead squirrel. I think you should contact Guiness Book of World Records.
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I have always favored the butterfly opsed to any other insect.  however if to be a butterfly i would have to go through the evolving part i would say know.  I have stepped on many a caterpiller.  oops!  i have a tatoo of a butterfly that used to be a spider.  I callit my spiderfly.  my fiance calls me his iron butterfly.  cause i am strong and yet gental.
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Tough it is a bit late, its not unheard of, as long as they don't freeze  they can survive just with a somewhat slow metalbolism, its been a rather warm Nov in the north east which may account for this, once the temp really plummets they will stop appearing. If its the ones shaped like a T its probably a plume moth, if not its probably some type of noctuid.
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The head of Death is right at the top of the moth, I actually have one right now. It's still a caterpillar, buried itself under some soil. It stays and cuccoons for about 2 or 3 weeks until it's ready to fly and search for nectar and honey to eat, they're very cool:)
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My guess is that you've found a golden torotise beetle (Charidotella sp.)\nhttp://bugguide.net/node/view/8827/bgpage\n\nThey are related to ladybugs but not really a part of that group. Dead beetles quickly lose the gold.
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They are likely following air currents-Flies dont think about where they are going-they dont really "think" at all, in terms of making decisions.  THey just have simple reactions to ari currents, heat, light, and chemical sensations (food)-If they are circling, its because there are air current moving in a circular motion, and they are following those.
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because of inertia it will be traveling at 60mph as it leaves the car\nbecause of the fly's body shape theoreticaly it would give it lift assuming that the fly was facing foward\n\nrealisticly it was facing sideways, so the air would be traveling over its body sideways it would have been plummeted into the ground and its wings would have been ripped off
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My guess would be yes.\n\nFlies LOVE dead things, and blood..ewww...I'll bet there were swarms of flies.
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"won't you come into my parlor?",said the spider to the fly. the tricky spider is pretty clever,isn't he? he knows the fly will be caught and he'll be able to scamper along and have himself a nice meal!\n       but if the sticky web clings to the fly and traps him,why doesn't it cling to the spider? the answer to this will surprise you. it does! a spider can be caught just as easily in his own web as a fly is.\n       the reason this doesn't happen is that the spider is "at home" in his own web. he knows his way around. and when the web was spun originally, the spider made sure that there would be "safe" threads to use, threads he could touch without sticking to them.\n      there are many kinds of silk that a spider produces. the sticky kind is used in the web to catch its prey. but there is also a non-sticky kind, and this is used to make the strong, supporting spokes of the web. the spider knows which is which, and he simply avoids the sticky ones! he can do this because he has a remarkable sense of touch.
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did you know that it's only female flies that bite you for your blood?\nmosquitos have very short lives, and the female mosquito uses its short life for the sole purpose of reproducing.\nthey need the blood as energy for her offspring and the nutrients from the blood to reproduce. \ni don't know if other bugs do that, they probably do, as there a lot of bugs in the world that we don't understand. \n\nhope this helps...
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Maggots are fly larvae. Flies land on the body, lay eggs, and the larvae feed until they hatch. The the cycle repeats itself.\n\nIf a person dies in a hermetically sealed clean room, maggots would not appear unless the flay larvae were already there. If they died outside the room and were brought in, the eggs were already laid.
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Well..the larvae would have survived and been stuck to all those dead carcasses that were floating on the surface...wasn't so much evolution as it was survival of the fittest...it's hard to kill all those bugs....and their larvae...and bacteria...hey...what a breeding grounds...whewee...
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Flies avoid being hit by raindrops, not by dodging them, but by the drop of rain creating a tiny pressure wave ahead (below the raindrop).  This wave pushes the fly sideways and the drop of water misses it.\n\nIncidentally, this is also why fly swatters have holes in the surface, i.e. to reduce the pressure wave - otherwise, flies would escape most efforts to swat them.
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Sure, why not?  I've had flies and bees flying around in my car many times.\n\nOnce the insect gets inside your car, it becomes isolated from the exterior environment the same way that you and I do.  So the car's interior becomes its new frame-of-reference.  If you manage to move it close to the window and shoo it out, watch it disappear to the rear as the exterior environment becomes its new frame-of-reference.\n\nStraight out of Einstein!
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No. It would still be called a fly because that's what it is. It would be called disabled. Oh no, that's not pc is it. It would have to be physically challenged.
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Some are full of maggots that they are going to land and lay soon. Some may be of a different fly species that are naturally larger. I believe that 'housefly' covers a several different kinds. And there is probably a bell-shaped curve that covers their sizes, like a lot of other things.