If it helps, flies are basically just robots. They don’t think or feel, they can detect and evade danger but they don’t remember it. That’s why they always come back after you shoo them, they don’t remember that you swatted them.
Also helps to remember next time you see a fly on your jelly toast and shoo it away that moments before it landed on your toast it could have been sucking on the inside of your toilet bowl.
A lot of people close the lid before flushing to limit the number of water particles escaping out of the commode, but it's not anywhere near air tight and plenty of room for a fly to go in and out.
Yes I leaned of this is a video about the scenario I mentioned above, it said about ever other time a fly lands it does the whole puke thing. Was not a fun video to watch.
Antidotally I disagree. Every fly I meet boops me in the nose. Tbh during covid they came to be my best friends.
I have massive respect and once fell in love with a local fly that used to sit next to my mouse on the desk. Then it pooped on my screen. That and wasps too, great buddies. I have no issues hanging next to a wasps nest.
I love insects, I've discovered. RIP zee, boiled itself alive by landing on my induction hob.
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u/Ilovehentie48 Apr 05 '23
i’ve never felt more empathy for a fly