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Facts Houseflies can only take in liquid foods.
The instant the fly lands on your food it secretes an enzyme called
volidrop, along with a portion of his previous meal. This it does
right on the area of the food it wants to consume. This potent mixture
liquefies the tiny spot almost immediately.
The fly then
consumes the liquid food and moves on leaving behind diseases that
can get you deathly sick. After they eat they spit it out then suck
it back in. They also throw up partially digested matter and eat
it again. The flies can walk on vertical planes, and can even hang
upside down from ceilings. This is accomplished with the surface
tension (a phenomenon at the surface of a liquid caused by intermolecular
forces) of liquids secreted by various organs that synthesize substances
needed by the body and release it through ducts or directly into
the bloodstream via glands near their feet. Lacking eyelids, the
flies continually clean their eyes with their forelegs. Most of
their taste and smell sensor cells are on hairs on their legs, and
that is why they also keep rubbing their legs together.
Source: U. S.
Department Of Agriculture MORE
fly facts from the University of Nebraska |