# House fly can fly inverted with ease.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-fly-can-fly-inverted-with-ease/674611>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [November 23, 2013, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-fly-can-fly-inverted-with-ease/674611 "2013-11-23T10:03:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Giro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Giro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giro)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-fly-can-fly-inverted-with-ease/674611/1 "2013-11-23T10:03:52Z")

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Hi,  
just letting you know of a factual event of several yrs back when I was about 50.  
It was mid morning on a Saturday in summer here in NZ and in the kitchen above the table was a light hanging quite low. House flies like doing that eratic zig zag flying underneath objects such as that. The sun was streaming into the room & I was watching the fly zig zaging in the sunshine less than a metre away from me, when suddenly it went upside down & did 5 or 6 zig zags before righting itself into the usual flying position.  
I had a young surfing friend in the kitchen, visiting us at the time, enjoying a coffee & I looked at him & said “Did you just see that!!” to which he smiled & immediately said “Yeah, it was flying upside down!”  
And so it was.  
Giro.

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**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-fly-can-fly-inverted-with-ease/674611/2 "2013-11-23T13:12:01Z")

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Welcome to the Straight Dope Message Boards, **Giro** , we’re glad you found us. For future ref, when you start a thread, it’s helpful to other readers if you provide a link to the column you’re commenting on. I’m not sure if you’re actually commenting on a column, or just sharing an anecdote, but (assuming the former) here’s a link to what is probably the column in question: [How does a fly land upside down on the ceiling? - The Straight Dope](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1074/how-does-a-fly-land-upside-down-on-the-ceiling)

No biggie, you’ll know for next time, and, as I say, welcome!

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**Author:** ![JBDivmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@JBDivmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBDivmstr)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-fly-can-fly-inverted-with-ease/674611/3 "2013-11-23T18:02:03Z")

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I second the, Welcome to the ‘Dope’! 🙂  
FWIW, you’re not the only ‘Kiwi’ on the boards. 🆒

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**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2013, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-fly-can-fly-inverted-with-ease/674611/4 "2013-12-21T19:18:20Z")

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Isn’t there some fuss about a Kiwi with a chip on his shoulder on one of the boards now? He called Americans “niggers” because we didn’t know enough stuff about N.Z.

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**Author:** ![JBDivmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@JBDivmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBDivmstr)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2013, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-fly-can-fly-inverted-with-ease/674611/5 "2013-12-22T01:55:56Z")

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> [@Leo\_Bloom](#):
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> Isn’t there some fuss about a Kiwi with a chip on his shoulder on one of the boards now? He called Americans “niggers” because we didn’t know enough stuff about N.Z.

I think he ‘wore out his welcome’, and rather quickly, too. 😛

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**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2013, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-fly-can-fly-inverted-with-ease/674611/6 "2013-12-22T02:28:27Z")

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> [@Giro](#):
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> “Did you just see that!!” to which he smiled & immediately said “Yeah, it was flying upside down!”  
> And so it was.

Come on, it’s New Zealand. Everything is upside down there.

🙂