What would happen if flies went extinct?

If flies went extinct the planet would fill up with excrement and rotting flesh. If flies went extinct the world would fill up with rotting organic rubbish. It's because flies are composters. They act as scavengers alongside isopods eating and laying eggs on dead animals, excrement, dead wood, and anything rotting.
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Do we need flies to exist?

The biggest benefit from flies comes from the parasitic species. They attack caterpillars, grasshoppers, and other insects that eat our food plants. Some flies also help pollinate plants that we grow. Flies are also important food source for other animals that we value, like fish.
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Can we make flies go extinct?

Their extinction is a monumental task that will require drastic changes and measures. It's almost an impossible task because some fly larvae can actually survive in harsh and uncommon environments such as inside beehives, hot springs (or other areas with extreme temperatures) and even on petroleum.
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Why did God create flies?

Augustine's idea that God created flies to punish human arrogance, and not just the calamitous technological arrogance of DDT. Flies are, as one bi- ologist has remarked, the resurrection and the reincarnation of our own dirt, and this is surely one reason we smite them down with such ferocity.
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Are flies useful in life?

Flies are more than just a nuisance. These buzzing insects also play important roles in nature, including pollinating plants, breaking down organic material, and serving as food for other bugs and animals.
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What If Flies Went Extinct?



Do flies feel pain?

Over 15 years ago, researchers found that insects, and fruit flies in particular, feel something akin to acute pain called “nociception.” When they encounter extreme heat, cold or physically harmful stimuli, they react, much in the same way humans react to pain.
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Can humans survive without flies?

If flies went extinct the planet would fill up with excrement and rotting flesh. If flies went extinct the world would fill up with rotting organic rubbish. It's because flies are composters. They act as scavengers alongside isopods eating and laying eggs on dead animals, excrement, dead wood, and anything rotting.
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Who created the God?

We ask, "If all things have a creator, then who created God?" Actually, only created things have a creator, so it's improper to lump God with his creation. God has revealed himself to us in the Bible as having always existed. Atheists counter that there is no reason to assume the universe was created.
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Why do flies fly into you?

What attracts flies to sit on humans? Flies are attracted to carbon dioxide which human beings breathe out. Flies feed on dead cells and open wounds. Oily hair is an attractant.
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Do flies hate Windex?

Because Windex doesn't work as a repellent, it's no more effective at getting rid of the occasional bug than using a broom to shoo the critter outdoors or a paper towel to squish it. You're better off saving the cleaning solution for its rightful use.
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Why do humans not like flies?

Disgust-Driven

Sometimes, this is a result of the fact that bugs such as flies and cockroaches often feast on rotting food, dead animals and feces. So when we see them in our homes or on our dinner plates, that disgust response gets triggered in the brain. Another potential trigger focuses on infestation.
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What if spiders went extinct?

“If spiders disappeared, we would face famine,” says Norman Platnick, who studies arachnids at New York's American Museum of Natural History. “Spiders are primary controllers of insects. Without spiders, all of our crops would be consumed by those pests.”
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Why do flies annoy humans?

Although mosquitoes and other blood-feeding insects are attracted to the carbon dioxide we exhale, we know the insect sensory system also helps find exposed skin. Since the skin near our faces is often exposed, that's one reason flies are always buzzing around your face and hands.
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Are humans meant to fly?

Humans are not physically designed to fly. We cannot create enough lift to overcome the force of gravity (or our weight). It's not only wings that allow birds to fly. Their light frame and hollow bones make it easier to counteract gravity.
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Do flies suffer on fly paper?

None of us like living with insects or rodents, but this is cruel. Insects or animals caught in these traps struggle against the glue trying to escape. Eventually, they succumb to injuries, exhaustion, starvation or dehydration over the several hours or days it takes to die.
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Do insects feel fear?

They can be optimistic, cynical, or frightened, and respond to pain just like any mammal would.
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Are flies clean or dirty?

Flies are dirty. Not in a moral or political way. But in a bacteria- and other pathogen-carrying way.
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Do flies have a memory?

Even a tiny, small-brained fruit fly can learn simple tasks and form memories. And, like people, some flies can learn and remember better than others.
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What does fly poop look like?

Have you ever heard of flyspeck? That's another name for a fly's excrement. These specks are tiny dark-colored (brown or black) dots with amber or cream-colored spots. The light spots are excess saliva that accompany their excrement.
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Who is the 1st person in the world?

ADAM1 was the first man. There are two stories of his creation. The first tells that God created man in his image, male and female together (Genesis 1: 27), and Adam is not named in this version.
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Who is the 1st God in the world?

Brahma the creator

In the beginning, Brahma sprang from the cosmic golden egg and he then created good and evil and light and dark from his own person. He also created the four types: gods, demons, ancestors and men, the first of whom was Manu.
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Who is first God?

Who is Brahma? Brahma is the first god in the Hindu triumvirate, or trimurti. The triumvirate consists of three gods who are responsible for the creation, upkeep and destruction of the world. The other two gods are Vishnu and Shiva.
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How many flies can lift a human?

Dividing 110 pounds by the lift of a housefly, we find you'd need five million of the insects to lift you off the ground.
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What insect can we not live without?

Without bees, we wouldn't have some of our favourite foods and drinks, like apples, carrots, raspberries, watermelon, coffee, peaches, almonds, and so much more. Bees make it possible for harvest yields to be bigger than ever.
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Do flies like humans?

But why does the housefly love you and your home? Houseflies LOVE the scent of food, garbage, feces, and other smelly things like your pet's food bowl. They're also attracted to your body if you have a layer of natural oils and salt or dead skin cells built up.
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