Mastodawn

All my experiences with flies have heretofore involved being annoyed or disgusted by them, but the evening before last, I was outside and I witnessed a thirsty housefly land at the edge of a splash of water I had made while watering my plants.

It walked forward and began to drink. I couldn't see its drinking directly, but i could see the surface of the water quivering as the fly slaked its thirst at the end of a hot day.

I dunno, flies are still gross and annoying, but I'm thinking about them differently now.

Hoarse e-Books 1d ago

@MLE_online Misread this initially as “files” and am still having Feelings.

Emily Velasco 1d ago

@20002ist paper files? computer files? metal rasps?

Hoarse e-Books 1d ago

@MLE_online Door #2

Bosque Bill 1d ago

Tachinid Flies
Santa Fe National Forest, NM

@MLE_online There are some cool flies if you look for them.

#InsectSaturday #InsektenSamstag #photo #nature #NewMexico

Emily Velasco 1d ago

@bosquebill yeah, i should not paint diptera with such a broad brush. I see some very cool flies in my garden. It's just the houseflies giving the rest of them a bad name

Bosque Bill 1d ago

@MLE_online Biting flies are no fun either!

Emily Velasco 1d ago

@bosquebill yea, fuck those guys, but at least they don't come in the house

Bosque Bill 1d ago

@MLE_online 😂 👍

PeanutDust 1d ago

@MLE_online @bosquebill I blame Seth Brundel.

Bosque Bill 21h ago

@n8dly Have you seen the 'original?' Sometime in the 1950's if I remember right.

PeanutDust 16h ago

@bosquebill I have not, but I know Vincent Price is in it, so I should rectify that!

Bosque Bill 7h ago

@n8dly It's pretty cheesy, as I recall, though it's been many, many, many years since I saw it!

christian mock 1d ago

@MLE_online I have, in past springs, noticed small ants in our bathroom, and when I looked closer, they were going up to the sink and drinking the splashed water there. And after a week, they were gone.

Legit_Spaghetti 1d ago

@MLE_online I have a thought about flies.

We tend to think of insects as something barely above simple automata. Their brains are so simple, they can't possibly have complex inner lives or experiences.

But what if we flip that around? Imagine a brain so simple, any positive feedback becomes all-encompassing, an overwhelming and undiluted joy that reverberates through their entire nervous system.

Maybe the humble housefly is capable of an ecstasy we can't even begin to imagine.

I love flies. I also love to kill them when they start buzzing around my head. Natural selection, baby!