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Index of Subjects Donna, and all, On the matter of flies being attracted to one colour over another. When my younger brother was about 8 years old, he discovered that if he tied a certain colour of eraser onto the end of a long string, and then swung it in big circles over his head -- sort of like a cowboy spinning a lariat, any fly in the room would zoom out and get on the eraser and go for a ride. I can't remember which worked best -- a dayglo lime green, or a hot pink eraser. Trust my kid brother to discover something so weird. bev Round Hill On 4/19/20, Donna Crossland <dcrossland@eastlink.ca> wrote: > Well if you are going to go 'religious', I'll admit to being more > entertained by the great masses of cluster flies than the rather dry > sermon once the wood stove warmed up the little Anglican church. (I was > a kid then, but I might still be quite distracted by this great din of > cluster flies that darkened a stain glass window high in the peaks, > noting that they were drawn to some colors over others... etc. But I'm > unlikely to return.) > > Donna > > On 2020-04-18 9:18 p.m., Fred Schueler wrote: >> On 4/18/2020 6:22 PM, David Webster wrote: >> >>> Neither Cluster Flies nor Asian Lady Beetles contribute to >>> Climate Change and that, if not taken seriously, will wipe out >>> everything. I suspect Cluster Flies are good pollinators of early >>> flowering plants. And when they die their bodies likely sustain some >>> organisms. >> >> * I was going to remark on Cluster Flies as biocontrol agents of >> invasive alien Earthworms. It's very interesting how some folks freak >> out when any Insect - Cluster Flies, Box Elder Bugs, Ladybirds, or >> Polistes wasps - want to share their house for the winter. I was once >> present when a clustered cabin was warmed up for the first time in a >> winter, and the Cluster Flies buzzed out about 3 metres, and then fell >> onto the snow where they fed quite an assembly of Chickadees and other >> birds. >> >>> Some decades ago (about 1970 ?) we were overrun by Earwigs and they >>> are inclined to climb. Open a door and a shower of earwigs would >>> fall. So I looked into the feasibility of control by shocking. A >>> liquid had seeped from many joints and they proceeded to carefully >>> clean all of this away, by moistening a tarsus with mouth parts and >>> then wiping down all joints in legs and antennae. So I scrapped that >>> project because I realized that in many ways they resembled humans >>> and should not be tortured. >> >> * Earwig (english substantive for Forficula auricularia): an >> omnipresent reminder that humanity is not acclaimed as the dominant >> species on the globe, a conclusion recorded in the Earwig’s neatly >> folded dorsal Scriptures and revealed by its inscrutable appearance >> wherever it is not wanted. "The earwig can, at the end of its ‘earthly >> course’ rise up to kinship with God and eternal life." Friedrich >> Nietzsche, 1881, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality, p 47. >> >> fred. >> ------------------------------------------------------------ >> Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad >> Fragile Inheritance Natural History >> 'Wildlife on Roads' - >> http://doingnaturalhistory.blogspot.ca/2018/03/upcoming-book-wildlife-on-roads-handbook.html >> 'Daily' Paintings - http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/ >> 4 St-Lawrence Street Bishops Mills, RR#2 Oxford Station, Ontario K0G 1T0 >> on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44.87156° N 75.70095° W >> (613)258-3107 <bckcdb at istar.ca> http://pinicola.ca/ >> ------------------------------------------------------------ >> "Feasting on Conolophus to the conclusion of consanguinity" >> - >> http://www.lulu.com/shop/frederick-w-schueler/feasting-on-conolophus-to-the-conclusion-of-consanguinity-a-collection-of-darwinian-verses/paperback/product-23517445.html >> ------------------------------------------------------------ > > -- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > >
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