Comments on: Researchers Crack the Case of Why Flies Are Hard to Swat

By: Mr. Miagi

Mr. Miagi — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:50:55 +0000

Chuck Norris and his round house is a wanna be. I use chopsticks to catch flies. LOL

By: Sp00t

Sp00t — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:03:05 +0000

Dammit, Chuck Norris, I was drinking when I read that, and now my nose burns.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:25:45 +0000

Jackie’s message is sarcastic. Perhaps she is not capable of expressing herself directly and with reasoning.

By: the merlin

the merlin — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:36:25 +0000

I offer this simple and effective method of killing flies- use an old army surplus flame thrower you probably have collecting dust in the basement. works not only on flies, but all other household pests, except maybe cockroaches.

By: Arous

Arous — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:36:29 +0000

One day this information may lead to a infinitely renewable energy source that costs pennies to produce, you just never know…

By: modernrocko

modernrocko — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:25:38 +0000

Ahh.. I love you Discover commenters. You always handle flames and internet trolls exactly the way I would. :)

By: Richard Wilkinson

Richard Wilkinson — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:05:18 +0000

Something on the bottom of the world happen in different directions. My dad would catch fies seemingly absent minded while doing what ever he was doing, after 65 years of practice I caught one by one its legs as it flew by.

By: Vineesh

Vineesh — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:34:03 +0000

Sorry, did not notice the typo earlier. I faintly remember reading a discover magazine article about 19 years back that the best way to swat a fly is to position hands 1 feet above the fly and clap.

By: Vineesh

Vineesh — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:31:32 +0000

I faintly remember reading a discover magazine article about 19 years back that the best way is to position hands 1 above the fly and clap, that will get the fly. I tried this successfully then. Will try this again in the next fly season.

By: stephen hawking

stephen hawking — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:10:32 +0000

the best way to swat a fly is from directly overhead (of the fly). the fly’s excellent motion detectors are designed to be sensitive from motion around the fly, so a blow coming from overhead will be less detectable. you can even bring down your hand slowly from directly overhead and the fly won’t move, try it.

By: Bugged In West Texas

Bugged In West Texas — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:38:26 +0000

I live in an area of a lot of cattle and occasional rain. This equals a lot of practice swatting flies–even with screens & air conditioning. I’ve always claimed that if you aim just ahead of the fly (in the opposite direction that you’re coming from) you’ll almost always get the suckers. Now I know why I’ve always been so accurate. Besides, I’ve read that they carrie H. pylori on their feet and that eating food they land on can lead to ulcers. (So it wasn’t the stress at work, but the food from the company picnic that gave you ulcers…)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:25:01 +0000

Wow. I’m surprised this wasn’t known already.

I have a Chinese friend who did kung fu. He said he used to watch flies every day when he was a kid to see how they took off, so he could catch them.

He explained to me how they take off backwards to evade, and he had a technique where he could catch them between his curled index finger and the back of his second finger.

I used to watch him do it, and he really could get them every time.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 04:54:04 +0000

Wow. I can’t believe that anyone would have enough time and bile to bother to write something negative about an article they didn’t have to read if they weren’t interested in the first place.
I would also like to say that no one reading this magazine has a problem with evolution (neither, I might add, would anyone who has actually read the Bible and understands what It says). God and science are not opposing concepts!!!

By: Brewer

Brewer — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:44:25 +0000

There was a time in the recent past when I read about the act of coating a fly’s head with a molecular-thin layer of gold. Of special interest was the eye, as poking out from between all those eye-cells, were hairs – feelers, the purpose of which was believed to sense the change in air pressure as a swatter was brought down.

By: Kristine

Kristine — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:18:48 +0000

ahhh, Rik Hansel! you touch them with your HANDS? i touched one by accident, and it felt hairy and alien to me.

LOL at chuck norris.

i feel like im the only kid in here….well dont mind me, im just looking for an article for my summer assignment…