What do flies want?

General Questions
#1

I spent the weekend out in the garden, alternating between actually working in the garden and kicking back in a shady spot with a cold drink and a book. (Yes, it was the most delightful way imaginable to spend three days).

Yesterday, during my sitting-in-the-shade-reading periods, I was constantly bothered by a fly. It would land on my leg, I’d shake my leg or brush the fly away, and it would come right back and start walking up my leg again. Or the other leg. Or my arm – but mostly my legs. It was darned annoying (I was forced to retreat inside when naptime came).

Almost as annoying as the sensation of a fly crawling on me was my inability to figure out what the blasted thing wanted. Do flies need salt? I was definitely covered with a film of dried sweat (it was 90 and moderately humid yesterday). If not salt, then what?

#2

Did it look like an ordinary fly or was the appearance somewhat different about the head? Could you hear him crying, Help me!? :wink:

#3

When you get this one solved, let’s get back to work on Freud’s version of this question.

#4

IIRC, non-biting houseflies just want what we all want… food, and a nice quiet place to lay eggs and raise maggots. I mean offspring. I guess you give off a smell that the flies find either tasty, nurturing, or both.

#5

I thought of this – one of the things I was doing yesterday was spreading compost, and, since I was barefoot, there was definitely a thin layer of rich organic matter on my feet and ankles – but the fly was higher up, mostly around my knees and thighs.

(And pseud – thanks for getting my joke. :wink: )

#6

Whoosh! :confused:

#7

Freud famously asked “What do women want?”

#8

Oh. :o

I took sociology. :stuck_out_tongue:

#9

It probably found you attractive and wanted to carrion.

#10

Do flies like sweat?

#11

So did I. :wink:

#12

According to the increasingly powerful fly lobby, they want a flat tax, a sensible energy policy, and a pro-shit eating constitutional amendment.

#13

Thus spake Earl Butz.

#14

here, here! I fully support the Fly Girls on whatever position they want to take! mmmmm Rosie Perez… :smiley:

Bo

#15

:smack: errr, I could do without the scat, tho

Bo

#16

Is your middle name Beelzebub?

#17

Not to mention that the whole question of what women want is slightly irrelevant in your case…

#18

Read less Freud and more Crossworld. It ain’t bad.

#19

It wanted to be told its human wasn’t unzipped… :smiley:

#20

I really wish i knew the answer. Me and the wife went for a walk yesterday, and I swear this one little &&% of a fly was circling my head the whole way. I know I’m not slim, but I shouldn’t be attracting smaller masses into orbit!