Just spent too many (unsuccessful) minutes hunting a fly in my kitchen. I tried to encourage it out the door but it clearly wants to stay.
It’s goading me and it’s bloody massive. Like bumblebee size.
I went at it with a magazine, kitchen roll and dishcloths but all were fruitless.
I read they perceive time differently so is it that they see me in slow motion? How does something operate in the world around them at a different ‘base speed’ if that is the case?
EDIT/UPDATE: thanks for all the comments. Some very cool and interesting things said that I’m going to follow up on. Not sure if it was the same one but a little while ago approached another behemoth of a fly with a white kitchen roll super slow and successful smushed it. Almost felt bad. Almost.
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Here’s a podcast on flies by Alie Ward. Podcast is called ologies. They cover this. Highly recommend!
https://spotify.link/iSMKH9QkTDb
Slow fly = dead fly
When it lands, sneak up and then clap your hands about 4” above where it is.
Also, how can a fly find a tiny gap to get inside the house, but can’t/won’t fly out through a wide open door?
The fly only needs to move a fly amount of stuff. You move a lot more stuff than a fly amount of stuff.
All the slow flies died off. The great reactors had children, and those are the current flies.
Shooting them with a spray bottle of water on laser mode is a good way to stun them so you can dispose of them to your liking.
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