2006-10-06 03:06:47 · 8 answers · asked by Nightmare 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Flies without wings are call maggots.
2006-10-06 03:12:40 · answer #1 · answered by FrogDog 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the common name 'fly' is used to refer to a group of organisms (usually it refers specifically to members of the insect Order Diptera). The fact that most of this group have wings, and are able to employ the locomotory mode of transportation known as flight is more or less coincidental.
Although flight is a typical characteristic of the order, it is not required to be a member of the order. The entire Dipteran Family of Braulidae, for example, are flightless. However, they would still be refered to as flies.
Other members of the group, which have become so modified that they no longer resemble the other flies, usually have different names. For example, sheep keds are generally known as keds, even though technically speaking they are Dipterans, and also freaky looking and disgusting.
If however, you wanted to call a flightless Dipteran a walk, you are perfectly free to do so. As long as your audience understands what you are talking about, it's all good. This ability to communicate through words is what we call language. Humans have been using this ability to share information for thousands of years, but the languages themselves have changed, morphed and mutated over the years as people added new words, changed the meanings of old words, or created new contexts and descriptions to go with existing words. Today there are thousands of living languages spoken throughout the world, and pretty much every one of them has a different word for 'fly'.
2006-10-06 12:52:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nightmare.....are you having those bad dreams again?
How many times must I tell you to stop eating before you go to bed?
You should not have watched that awful movie the "fly"....You know it give it disturbs you so.
2006-10-06 10:16:14 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are no flies without wings.
2006-10-06 10:08:46 · answer #4 · answered by Annette J 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess a fly trying to get away would be called a "flee!" (yeah, I know - flea...
2006-10-06 14:45:02 · answer #5 · answered by Donald W 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
why is a but with cheeks not called a but cheek
why is ur mom not called a retard
2006-10-06 11:36:38 · answer #6 · answered by padreperson1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because a bee without a buzz is not a bell!
2006-10-06 10:36:08 · answer #7 · answered by megh 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
why is a man with out legs not called mat ?
2006-10-06 10:08:17 · answer #8 · answered by Blondie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋