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Are you wearing pants right now? If yes, do me a favor and check your fly. Is it zipped? If not, you may be a slight idiot, like me. Recently I’ve been completely forgetting to zip up my fly. I don’t ...

Fly corpses become more attractive as the hours pass Tracking fly behavior also let the researchers demonstrate that dead female flies become more attractive as time passes. Specifically, 73 percent ...

A unique fungus survives by 'bewitching' male flies into mating with dead female flies. The longer a female fly carcass has lain and rotted, the greater the male's lust. Entomophthora muscae is a ...