If an insect is inside of a container, but flying, is it adding weight to the container?

Question

If an insect is inside of a container, but flying, is it adding weight to the container?

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Answer 1

I envision it like this.

Let’s take a tall box. Ten foot tall cardboard box. Now, let’s put a ten pound rock inside. Seal up the box.

Now, take the box and heave it upward, but don’t let go of the box.

The rock flies upward and is no longer weighing the box down. In those moments while it’s in the air, does that 10 pound rock add weight to the box?

By the use of magic, we turn the 10 pound rock into a fly in mid-air. Now, it’s flying around inside the tall box and it’s not resting. Mid-air, all the time. Does the fly add weight to the box?