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If you want to catch a stationary fly, it's pretty easy to do so with your bare hands. The key thing to know is that they jump backward before taking flight.
by adekok 9y ago
If you want to catch a stationary fly, it's pretty easy to do so with your bare hands. The key thing to know is that they jump backward before taking flight.
Aim for a spot about 1-2" behind the fly, and about 1-2" above the fly. Try to catch it there, and your success percentage will be high.
- thedevil 9y agoI was about to post the same. Last time I used this technique, I hit 3/3.
- anotheryou 9y agoYou have to learn the kind of fly though. Take-off differs between species :)
- oolaf 9y agoI love HN.
- SirFatty 9y agoWhat... is the air-speed velocity of an unladen fly?
- wruza 9y agoThe perspective of cathing a fly that walked on crap five minutes ago disgusts me. I know they cleanse their paws more often than I do mine, but faugh.
- adekok 9y ago1) catch a fly and wash your hands 2) see the fly walk over your food, your face, your kids food... Do you want to touch a "dirty" fly, or eat what the fly has walked on? I'll take #1 any day.
- gbog 9y ago3) Do not care at all, and consider that our bodies are pretty well tuned to handle such thing as a few particles of foreign excrement (or other dirty things). Seriously, we have become irrational animals afraid of everything. (I would wash my hand after splashing a fly if there was a rotten corpse around, though, and would have done even without the fly because my nose would have alerted me of a chemical danger.)
- autokad 9y agoi always found it easy catching flies, especially in air, but squishing their guyts all over my hands is what bothers me most. an easy way to catch flies is to put rubbing alcohol in a squirt gun. even less than direct hits takes them out of the sky, and the alcohol cleans stuff in collateral damage.
- addHocker 9y agoThe real disgusting thing here are wasps.. who will go for dead rodents- and then move on to grab food from your plate.
- agumonkey 9y agoAlso depends on the fly species. Some are just uber slow I could play tennis with them.
- ximeng 9y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otqcVG-nJGI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otqcVG-nJGI apparently they plan their escape