Why do flies swarm?

Question

I was wondering this morning. Small gnats were swarming. Flies swarm too. What is the evolutionary advantage in swarming? It seems like wasted energy for he flies.

Answer 1

For the same reason that higher-evolved creatures do....
safety in numbers from predators,and the chance for a larger social circle (ummmm...that means MATES).
Also...they go where the food is.

Answer 2

Swarm Of Flies

Answer 3

well flies themselves swarming is probably useless but other types of swarming can be a very, very effective way of overpowering something or someone. for example, say you have a disarmed army attacking you and you have one sword... would you be able to defeat them one at a time or all of them on you at once? Here's something that I actually viewed personally, a butterfly was going along the grass when all of a sudden sevreal gnats attacked it, it tried to get away but as they "swarmed" over it they over powered it and had their supper :)
i hope that helped at least a little
~matrix

Answer 4

We get this subject at my stables, I heavily only use human aeroguard on my horse (he's allergic to the horse fly repellant). Spray your horses rug with it besides (rug additionally keeps flies off, if that's warm purchase a mesh or a cotton/mesh). Use a fly mask, and spray some fly spray on your hand and rub around your horses muzzle/face. additionally spray some fly spray gently on the partitions of your horses stable. attempt some fly strips aswell (i haven't had lots fulfillment interior the previous with them in spite of the indisputable fact that so... make certain you positioned them in spite of the indisputable fact that the place your horse won't be in a position to have a lick or something). i've got chanced on with all of the above the flies get doable. you may additionally locate the flies are much less worse out in a paddock, that's removed from all of the stables the place a great number of the flys might swarm to (horses = yum to flies, all of the candies like poo and open cuts). The horses are additionally in a position to steer away from the flies with the help of having slightly a run (that's humorous observing them attempt and run removed from the flies).

Answer 5

A mating swarm increases the likelihood of any individual meeting up with a member of the opposite sex. This in the middle of a lake where no food source is available.

Answer 6

These answers are correct - gnats form mating swarms or, more accurately, the males engage in vertical courtship displays that attract females. Gnat is a catch-all term for several families of flies that include several thousand species with extremely diverse habits. In general though, males are attracted to rising plumes of vapor, presumably because this is a suitable place to lay eggs (the larvae develop in moist soil that is high in organic matter). Females are also attracted to these areas where the male's dance catches her eye. Females enter a swarm, mate, and then land to lay eggs - or she may lay eggs at a place that suits her senses better. Because our bodies are warm blooded and we exhale humid air, male gnats are often attracted to us, especially our face. They really want nothing to do with us but they can't help themselves - they try to get above the vapor rising from our mouth but may get confused and get inside our mouth!

Supposedly... according to "experts", gnats do not want us(people), but they use us to swarm around looking for mates(gnat mates).. and they are using cows, humans, etc as a (sort of like)singles bar.. looking for mates

Yes, The group(of gnats) is never in synch, yet never completely out of it either---it's as if the swarm is following some mysterious polyrhythmic pulse only it can hear. Each loop is written so quickly in the air that it is hard to follow one at a time and impossible to see why they never collide with each other. The gnats seem to do their dancing each within its own constantly changing private space. Or maybe their loops all intersect but the weird pulse that pushes them makes it all perfectly timed so there are no collisions.



And this is Kathy for Kids Earth and Sky. Benny in Iowa wants to know, "Why do gnats travel together in big swarms?"

E: Benny, gnats are a type of tiny fly -- and they don't all travel in swarms -- only the male gnats do. They do this to attract female gnats. Gnats have pretty short life spans, so in order to mate and ensure the survival of their species, it's important that they're in the right place at the right time. That's why the males hang out together in huge groups. Being in a crowd increases their visibility. So a cluster of male gnats will hover in some sort of noticeable place -- like a shaft of sunlight -- usually around sunset.

K: The hovering crowd of male gnats is what's called a lek -- or a gathering for courtship. The lek doesn't increase any individual's chance to pass on his genes, but it helps ensure that at least someone's genes get passed on. But, Benny -- while swarming in clouds helps the whole gnat species survive, the odds don't look good for your average single, male gnat.

E: That's right! A gnat has to spend a lot of energy hovering. What's more, the swarm not only makes the gnat more visible to his potential mate -- but also to any predators. Benny, thanks. And thanks to the National Science Foundation. We talk about everything on the Earth . . .

K: And in the sky

E: On Kids Earth and Sky.


Genevieve Sormani; New York, NY Gnats don't always stay in groups (called swarms). You're just more likely to notice them when they do.

A swarm is usually made up of only one species (kind) of gnat. It's also made up mostly of males.

Now think of a female gnat ready to mate. Which might make it easier for her to find and choose the right mate? (a) A bunch of males of the right kind in one spot? Or (b) males scattered here and there? If you picked (a), you're right. At mating time, a swarm may mean better matchmaking.


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Answer 7

survival in numbers - what has a better chance of dying? - 1 fly being targeted by a dragonfly or a mass of flies ?

Answer 8

Because they see other hot flies that they wanna get it on with.

Answer 9

it`s mating time the circle of life

Answer 10

because they wannt 2