Don’t you drive a car?

The trick is to use other people’s time and money to create crime against nature.

Without a lie they’d just be horsefs

No it’s because they take a horse sized chunk out of you when they bite you

But they do? Along with any other animal that happens to be nearby.

That is the one insect I will go out of my way to kill.

Ok let me introduce you to the barn owl

You’re right. They only drink horse (and cattle) blood.

Horse or cow vampire fly is a little long winded for a name.

So why are you called “tramp-ass human”?

They’re generally called vinegar flies, and they don’t infest fresh fruit like fruit flies do when they lay their eggs in fruit.

what do you call a fly with no wings?

The victim of a psycopath in the making.

I’m sure the meme is apocryphal, and it’s not entirely correct. Fruit flies do eat yeast, yes…but they also eat the sugars in the fermenting fruit, not just the microorganisms causing fruit decay. I don’t know about the larvae at all, though.

The fruit flies you’ve seen eating fresh fruit are probably Drosophila suzukii (spotted wing fruit fly). Most (all?) other Drosophila species (including the model organism Drosophila melanogaster) only feed on rotting fruit. Though they’ll consume the sugars too, not just the microorganisms. So standard lab diets include sugar along with yeast and often cornmeal.

There are also some more distantly related flies that feed on fresh fruit and are commonly called fruit flies, eg Ceratitis capitata (Mediterranean fruit fly)

There’s even the old Marx brothers joke “time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana”

The fruit fly trap taught to me by an entomologist friend is baited with wine, suggesting the fruit flies want fermenting fruit

The trap: get a plastic fizzy drink bottle; bigger is better

Cut off the top. The cut piece is a cone

Place the cone (the top piece) upside down on the rest of the bottle

Sticky tape the joint

Bait with cheap wine or leftover wine or beer. The bait is poured down the funnel into the trap

Her tastes were revealed in the description of baiting the trap — she specified red wine, but I have tested with various booze and fruit flies have no taste, they’ll go for anything. You could probably extract bait from the sourdough starter you made in lockdown and kept alive despite never making bread after that first try

Liberals

All authoritarians left AND right. Please learn your political compass so you can have grown up conversations.

That’s what we are already tbh

That really makes me wonder what you mean by liberal

My take on the word highlights individual freedom except where it interferes with other individual’s freedoms

My take has most regulation put on corporations, ie. you and I are pretty free; Google has rules to follow (and so does the butcher, baker, and candlestick maker)

To make it clear the common liberal position is individuals should be free to do as they want unless it is harmful to others; companies should be regulated enough to protect people, the environment, competition