Why do house flies fixate on you for long periods of time when plenty of food is nearby?
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You *are* food to them. They eat the salt, oil and dead skin cells from the surface of your skin
They aren’t very capable of any thought whatsoever, they just follow programmed instinct. To them, you are a giant source of food. And in their world you move slow, so they will just sit there and keep trying.
-hungy
-woah big food ball
-eat
-shit
-repeat quickly
They are doing it on purpose because they know that it aggravates you. At least that’s what I tell myself and then a go on a vendetta.
You generate carbon dioxide which attracts them. Your head sits at the center of a cloud of CO2.
Why do some bugs only make a buzzing noise the second they are in your face?
I think heat is the missing explanation.
Things that rot often release heat, your head is warm and smelly, probably seems like the jackpot of food.
Something that has yet to be mentioned is that flies can get food with relative ease. But water in a house can be hard to come by. If a house fly is stuck indoors and the sink isn’t full of droplets, your face, eyes, mouth and nose are prime sources of moisture, and they need that to survive. I once spoke to some guys who worked in a mine in NZ and they said they needed to wear mesh head coverings because 1000s of flies that lived in the pits they dug would drink the moisture off their face in minutes if they weren’t wearing them. Creatures don’t just need food. In the heat, they need water too.
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