what would a fly be called if it didn't have wings?
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If it has wings it's a "fly"\nIf it doesn't it's  "grounded"!!! \nThat was a cute question. I'd never thought of that....LOL ;o)
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No.  Among other issues, human bones are too dense to fly.  If you look at the bones of a bird, they are completely different.  Also, our arms do not pivot in their sockets in the same way as wings, and we have no breastbone and keel to withstand the tension of flapping even if we had such arms, and we lack feathers.
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I didn't come up with this on my own but I guess you could call it a Mummifly.\nhttp://anaba.blogspot.com/2004_10_01_anaba_archive.html
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You'd see a lot of sh*t flying!
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Yes it is.\nAnd a fly without wings and legs is called a roll.
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It means to travel through the air.  A bird does this by the "lift" of the air under its wings.  Planes use the same method, but must be moving fast enough and so are propelled by engines.\n\nIcarus flew with wings made from bird feathers that were held together by wax.  He flew too close to the sun and.... well... if you don't know it, you can guess the rest of the story.\n\nTo fly an also mean to be free.  Let yourself FLY!  Unhindered and with reckless abandon.\n\nSue
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Flies are among the fastest of all flying insects. The buzzing of a fly is the sound of its wings beating. A house fly's wings beat about 200 times a second, and some midges move their wings 1,000 times a second. House flies fly at an average speed of 4 and 1/2 miles (7.2 kilometers) per hour. They can fly even faster for short distances to escape their enemies, which include people and many birds.
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Here's a bunch:\nhttp://images.google.com/images?q=flying+insects&hl=en
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butterfly. i dont know why but i would scream if i see one
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You answered the question urself\nBUTTERfly..........DRAGONfly
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The only bird that really flies backwards is actually no longer around. It was the Dodo bird.
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I would, but I have no fingers, just wings.
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depend on how fast you flap your wings, or should i said your arm. Flap flap\n\nOne more fact: fat fly take longer to get from one point to another
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if I'm not mistaken,i saw on television some time back that it would be called gliding because a snail is considered to not actually touch the ground.this is because it actually deposits a thin layer of "slime"on which it "glides" (however slowly that may be) along the ground.hope this helps.
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insects have an ectoskeleton, it's on the outside.  It's like armour.  Now imagine if they were the size of humans, it would be very easy for them to take over the world.  They'd be unstoppable!
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For a while, humans had a firm grip on the aerodynamics of fixed wing flight, and found that those rules didn't correctly explain the aerodynamics of moving bumblebee wings.\n\nNone of which menas that our understanding of flixed wing flight was hopelessly flawed, or that bumblebees fly with the help of tiny angels, or anything like that.  It just means that you can't accurataly understand a phenomena by applying inapplicable theories to it.  \n\nNow , we know the aerodynamics of bumblebees better; specifically, we know the aerodynamics of the small vortices created by insect wings better, so that I believe we do now have accurate hypotheses to apply to bumblebees flight.
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I don't know-- but it reminds me of an old joke.\n\nA scientist studies a fly. He claps his hands near the fly, and it flies off. He then captures the fly and pulls its wings off. He then claps his hands again, and the fly just stays where it is. The scientist concludes that if you remove the wings from a fly, it goes deaf.