What benefit (if any) do flies bring to the environment?
I must say they seem like a terrible annoyance.
They're always buzzing around.
In third world countries, they plague the poor starving peoples, and it's hard to imagine anything more despicable than maggots.
I'm not seeing any redeeming qualities, and I can't understand why God would have created them...
2006-08-19 05:27:32 · 8 answers · asked by zgraf 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
The eat up the dead stuff and poop. They promote the cycle of decay and they provide a food source to lots and lots of other things.
They fill the same nitch as many other insects. They just happen to fly.
2006-08-19 05:38:59 · answer #1 · answered by tbolling2 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They help other small insects feed and flies such as the bott-fly provide great data in crime scenes about decomposition and time of death.
2006-08-20 23:28:55 · answer #2 · answered by BioGuru 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To spread disease and lay eggs and maggots. They are good for nothing as far as I am concerned. They poop little black spots on everything they land on. I wish I had a mini-mini-mini gun to shoot them all.
2006-08-19 13:12:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are part of the food chain, other animals eat them. Their maggots eat and decompose dead animals.
2006-08-19 13:46:23 · answer #4 · answered by Kevin H 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they help decompose dying animals and eat away all the flesh and meat.
2006-08-19 12:32:38 · answer #5 · answered by Bhavesh.Chauhan 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They eat cow piles and other crap. That's why they were brought over here. They weren't here at first.
2006-08-19 12:33:10 · answer #6 · answered by JoeIQ 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
if your a fly fisherman,there good for catching fish
2006-08-19 12:33:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No good reason I can see.
2006-08-19 12:38:28 · answer #8 · answered by rm2kdark_lord 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋