We live in the country, and house backyard backs up to a farm, so there are lots of flies.
They get in the house and we find them hanging from the walls like they stuck themselves there to die. Why do they do this?
I didn't know where to put this question, so I stuck it here, lol.
2006-10-19 02:59:16 · 11 answers · asked by suchaprettyface11 4 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
This would go under science, then under biology. The study of houselfies, musca domestica, falls under entomology.
The flies' feet are equipped with many tiny hooks. When the flies die, they die where they happen to be, which is often on a vertical surface. Flies don't by habit crawl around on the ground. Their niche is the places they can reach by wing.
2006-10-19 03:03:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Take that fly crawling across the wall or ceiling. Most people know that insects can do this neat thing because they have a natural adhesive on the bottoms of their feet. If you find them stuck to the wall dead it is because that's where they were when they died. The only way they could have unstuck themselves is by propelling themselves back off of the wall with their wings which of course, they can't do when they are dead.
2006-10-19 03:05:51 · answer #2 · answered by dena_lisa 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
whoa, I've never seen that!
is the wall sticky or something? perhaps they died because they got stuck on the wall and couldn't move?
this is a very interesting question because it suggests that flies are secreting something before they died that stuck them to the wall. I'm going to have to do some research on this one.
2006-10-19 03:01:25 · answer #3 · answered by ♪ ♫ ☮ NYbron ☮ ♪ ♫ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Curious, I haven't noticed this. I find them on the ground. Yes, they exude a sticky allowing them to stand on walls and ceilings, but I wonder if high humidity is keeping the sticky......sticky. could dust from the walls be mixing with the sticky making a "string?" Could a spider be attaching them to the walls for later consumption? I don't know!
2006-10-19 03:05:15 · answer #4 · answered by fluffernut 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL!.....You have a couple of pretty good answers on this one! The funny thing is I thought all along my kids were smashing them and just leaving them for me to clean off! (I've caught them doing it too!)They do it IN the house as well. Its the kids I tell ya! If it's not your own, it's the neighbor kids coming over and doing it :o
2006-10-19 03:13:20 · answer #5 · answered by liljewel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm guessing that they are always stuck to the wall and only unstick themselves when alive by flying away.
2006-10-19 03:01:49 · answer #6 · answered by jack b 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they could have thousands of flies seeing as they're so pungent and all. Buk i understand a thank you to hold a fly decrease back to existence with a pinch of salt, i might desire to revive us as we droped like flies...
2016-10-02 11:13:57 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they are too stupid to tell, and think that when other flies are there, it's something good, like manure.
PS, was your wall recently painted?
2006-10-19 03:00:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a housefly does that as it needs to fill out its blood supllies before dying to prevent a disease from spreading to their famillies
2006-10-19 03:37:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes i have seen that often. Or they all peg and you find them on your window sills.... my windows are always open. why dont they go die outside?
2006-10-19 03:08:21 · answer #10 · answered by tay_jen1 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋