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Why is it hard to catch a housefly?

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Insects have compound eyes made up of several thousands single lenses. The net image formed in their nervous system is blurry lacking resolution, but these thousand images is why they so alert. So they fly away. read more

Insects have compound eyes made up of several thousands single lenses. The net image formed in their nervous system is blurry lacking resolution, but these thousand images is why they so alert. read more

I had read a long time ago that the wind force created from swinging a solid object at a fly or other small insect is great enough to push the fly out of the way. That's why a fly swatter has holes. I prefer a simple sheet of fly paper , they work great and are pretty cheap. read more

This explains why flies seem so hard to hit. “[For the fly] it feels like you are moving so slowly towards them. It’s the same as the famous bullet-time scene where the bullets are moving at this incredibly slow rate as far as Keanu is concerned,” Dr McNally said. read more