Talk:Fly

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Maybe move the stuff on the act of flying to flying? -- Tarquin 11:35 Jan 4, 2003 (UTC) -- moved it to flight - Tarquin 12:55 Jan 4, 2003 (UTC)

"For the kids" paragraph about walking on ceilings... What do kids have to do with it? I suggest including the answer in the article, but getting rid of the "For the kids" Q&A thing that's going on. --64.228.82.89 05:16, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] For The Kids section

I felt the same way as 64.228.82.89 and I reworded this section because it was too colloquial. Sp0ng 11:54, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Somebody told me a fly only lives for 24 hours, is this true? What is the life expectancy of a fly? Edward 13:47, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC) were do maggots live?

The life expectancy of a fly probably depends on the type of fly. Try looking up the specific species you are interested in. Jerdwyer

I've heard it's on the order of weeks, not days

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If flies have suckers, how do they inflict "painful bites"? Bastie 23:12, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

Should probably redirect to Housefly

Not clear what the question is. Some flies (e.g. horse-fly) inflict painful bites, others (e.g. housefly) have suckers. What are you proposing we redirect? Jerdwyer

[edit] Attraction to light

There are many pages on the internet discussing how various insects fly around and into lights, but I was wondering if anybody has any theories on an observation I made last year.

I was in a room with a window at each end on a bright summer's day. A fly would crash into one of the windows and continuing to try to fly through it, but would then give up after a couple of seconds then fly across the room and do the same thing to the other window. This went over and back for some time until I opened a window and let it out. It was extremely regular in terms of time, and it would fly in pretty much a straight line between the windows.

Why should it give up on one window and try to fly towards to the other window? I expected that it would keep flying at the one window constantly. It was a large fly of some sort, and unfortunately I have no idea what species it was.

Aaron McDaid (talk - contribs) 12:28, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

You expacted what,from a brain the sise of the tip of a pin.--Pixel ;-) 18:23, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Lord of the flies why is the song mentioned, but not the book by golding, on which the song is clearly based?

[edit] Proposed merger

It's been proposed a couple of times at Talk:Diptera that these two articles be merged, but it has never been carried out. I think the time has come. "Fly" (as covered by this article) and "Diptera" are essentially synonymous, and WP:NC(CN) states that we should use the common name. --Stemonitis 07:41, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Fully agree. Shyamal 08:16, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

I've merged the two articles now. I've been fairly severe, and some sections that seemed less relevant have been entirely removed, along with several pictures, and many external links and references. If someone's favourite section has been removed, then by all means reinsert it, if you can make a case for its inclusion. I think the references could do with a further clean-up; ideally, we would have only inline citations, and no unlinked sources at the end. --Stemonitis 11:12, 12 March 2007 (UTC)