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    Default Do Flies have mates.

    Sitting down having a cuppa and swatting flies.

    One deady fell on the ground into an ant line.

    Another fliy flew down immediately and looked at it.

    Then it came up and had a go at me.

    And flew down and had another look at the dead one.

    Next time it attacked it ended up in the ant line too.

    And the ants carried them both down their ant hole.

    Never thought about flies before but it seems they may have mating pairs like some birds and animals. Anyone here an insect specialist??
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    can you please PM me the recipe for the cuppa you are sippin
    Blowin in the Wind

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    Ummm.... shouldn't you be watching cricket(s) or something?

    I know how to tell the the sex of a fly...

    http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com...ead.php?t=3167

    does that help?
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    About 30 years ago as part of a fly eradication program they released about 80,000 sterile male flies in the Burrinjuck Dam area.

    When it was being discussed in the local pub one old timer commented, "That would be a bastard of a job". When asked what he was talking about he replied

    "Cutting the nuts out of 80,000 flies".

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    Nah flies just like dead things and buzzing in people's faces. So it was faced with a connundrum when it had to choose between the two. Fly brains aren't big enough to remember anniversaries and such...
    "I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."

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    They dont live long enough to have mates, read in the paper late last year that summer will see the coming and going of a few generations of flies.
    Brett

    Only Robinson Crusoe could get everything done by Friday!

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    If you pull their wings off do we then call them "Walks"???????

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    Quote Originally Posted by silentC
    Fly brains aren't big enough to remember anniversaries and such...
    But neither are blokes' brains :confused:

    Richard

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    Quote Originally Posted by Daddles
    But neither are blokes' brains :confused:

    Richard
    Not quite true, depends on the anniversary ... if its sporting related then yes we are most likely to remember it
    Brett

    Only Robinson Crusoe could get everything done by Friday!

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    Yea, flies do have mates..swat one ,and another coupla hundred come to the funeral...
    If your not confused you dont know whats going on!

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    Flies do have mates, horses, on sunny days they keep the sun off their faces
    Stupidity kills. Absolute stupidity kills absolutely.

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