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Where do flies come from?

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Created by dirtyharry > 9 months ago, 10 Nov 2011
Bton
2 posts
11 Nov 2011 5:47PM
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Dog ****. No dogs = no flies.

doggie
WA, 15849 posts
11 Nov 2011 5:52PM
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Bton said...

Dog ****. No dogs = no flies.


Oi!! [}:)]

BulldogPup
6657 posts
11 Nov 2011 5:53PM
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+1

dinsdale
WA, 1227 posts
11 Nov 2011 6:20PM
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Woodo said...

We had a guy in our class who use to hit them lightly to just stun them, then get a strand of long hair (usually plucked from an unsuspecting girl) and tie a little knot around the flies neck. When the fly comes too it would buzz around in circles while the guy held onto the end of hair. Pretty fuggin funny.

I taught my kidz to do that. Mates and I used to do it on long haul flights to fill the time. Even at 9000' you still get dunny bees. Works well with march flies too.

When I was an aircraft instrument fitter we would often take them up to 145,000' in a vacuum chamber for 48hrs. They became "walks" at that altitude, but they'd still get up and fly away when you brought "em back to sea level.

When I was young (about 100 years ago) we would cut a plan view of an aeroplane out of 2" masking tape. Catch 4 flies (the huge big trans Atlantic dunny bees were way the best) and carefully position them, 2 on each wing. We called them "fly things". Set 'em free, watch and rofl .

Herry
130 posts
11 Nov 2011 7:07PM
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We had a fly buzzing around the house tonight. It trapped itself between the open window and the flyscreen so I sprayed it and shut the window. Went back 2 min later to find it buzzing around legs up on the windowsill and tiny maggots on the glass

dinsdale
WA, 1227 posts
11 Nov 2011 7:37PM
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Herry said...
Went back 2 min later to find it buzzing around legs up on the window sill a ...

Break Dancing

Toots
WA, 271 posts
12 Nov 2011 1:51AM
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I moved to WA 3 weeks ago , and got a flat about 400 k's out of Pertth, I swallowed 4 flies changing the tyre, but you could tell these were bush flies, they were slow as f*ck, but Im sure thats where flies were invented there were thousands of them.

pierrec45
NSW, 2005 posts
12 Nov 2011 9:04AM
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I live in a rather cold place on Earth, and have no dogs and a very clean place (thanks to missus).

Yet you leave some fruit like a pineapple on the counter in the midst of the winter, which is fly-free, and 10 minutes later a million of those little black things circling madly said fruit.

No idea where the bitches come from...

cantswm4sht
VIC, 411 posts
13 Nov 2011 4:48PM
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Does It matter, just kill both of them!!

weiry said...

sausage said...

A: maggots..................


So what came first the maggot or the Fly ?


Herry
130 posts
13 Nov 2011 7:02PM
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cantswm4**** said...

Does It matter, just kill both of them!!
weiry said...

sausage said...

A: maggots..................


So what came first the maggot or the Fly ?





Both? or ALL?

cantswm4sht
VIC, 411 posts
14 Nov 2011 11:43AM
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If your names 'NOAH' it would be both,
For everyone else not squeemish, all

Herry said...

cantswm4**** said...

Does It matter, just kill both of them!!
weiry said...

sausage said...

A: maggots..................


So what came first the maggot or the Fly ?





Both? or ALL?



rescueme
WA, 79 posts
15 Nov 2011 5:36PM
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GypsyDrifter said...

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"In March next year two new species of dung beetle will be imported from Europe and it is hoped they hold the key to eradicating the bush fly."

story link:- www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-04/dung-beetle-feature/3632104?section=wa

How do I get these dung beetles established in the bushland near my place... dog walkers don't bother to pick up their (dog's) **** in the bush and I always see flys and maggots all over them...

cantswm4sht
VIC, 411 posts
15 Nov 2011 11:01PM
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So we get rid of the flies, and swap for a dung beetle explosion,
Probably unstoppable like the cane toads.........
Sounds like a fair trade,
except the flies only breed in s***, The dung beetles roll it up, and take it home (Chortle)

rescueme said...

GypsyDrifter said...

quote
"In March next year two new species of dung beetle will be imported from Europe and it is hoped they hold the key to eradicating the bush fly."

story link:- www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-04/dung-beetle-feature/3632104?section=wa

How do I get these dung beetles established in the bushland near my place... dog walkers don't bother to pick up their (dog's) **** in the bush and I always see flys and maggots all over them...




barn
WA, 2960 posts
15 Nov 2011 9:16PM
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cantswm4**** said...

So we get rid of the flies, and swap for a dung beetle explosion,
Probably unstoppable like the cane toads.........
Sounds like a fair trade,
except the flies only breed in s***, The dung beetles roll it up, and take it home


Dung Beetles are very specalized and when they run out of poo they run out of steam. We have native Dung beetles but they have evolved to eat marsupial poop, which is nothing like Bovine poop..

Our larger Dung Beetles probably died off when the Megafauna died off, co-extinction.. We brought back the Megafauna so it makes sense to bring back the Beatles.

You can read more @ www.dungbeetle.com.au/csiro_dungbeetle_project.html

In Tim Flannery's book The Explorers, he has a report from some early European travelers to north west WA and they comment that the Aboriginals had developed a permanent squint and kept their lips quenched, due to the sheer numbers of flies.. Apparently they were a pretty miserable lot..

cantswm4sht
VIC, 411 posts
16 Nov 2011 9:47AM
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In Tim Flannery's book The Explorers, he has a report from some early European travelers to north west WA and they comment that the Aboriginals had developed a permanent squint and kept their lips quenched, due to the sheer numbers of flies.. Apparently they were a pretty miserable lot.
Hmmmm......... You talking about the abo's or the flies ?

barn
WA, 2960 posts
16 Nov 2011 7:38AM
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cantswm4**** said...


Hmmmm......... You talking about the abo's or the flies ?


Partly due to the flies, these Aboriginals were living in a pretty miserable state. Probably malnourished and naked to. Think these Euros took one look at them and crossed WA off their maps..

It's a fascinating read, Flannery collects documented accounts from many encounters with the locals across Oz, often the authors are the first 'white people' seen by the Aboriginals.

Seems most of the intelligent locals inhabited the 'good locations' and the idiot hillbillys got the ****ty parts.. The ****ty parts in this case was the one with billions of flies eating your face..

The book was given to me by my Skipper because I always complained about the flies around our camp.. I recall Flannery explaining that there was so many flies because of an imbalance in the ecosystem, even before we got here.

http://www.longitudebooks.com/find/p/13040/mcms.html

Herry
130 posts
18 Nov 2011 7:00PM
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barn said...

Our larger Dung Beetles probably died off when the Megafauna died off, co-extinction.. We brought back the Megafauna so it makes sense to bring back the Beatles.




Sorry to disappoint but there are only 2 Beatles left now, don't know how much help they'll be getting rid of blowies.



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