Common fly varieties include houseflies, fruit flies, drain flies, and blue bottle flies. The species spotted in your home depends on where you live and the environmental conditions inside your house.

Unlike fruit flies, which barely rotate their bodies before touching down on vertical surfaces, the blue bottle flies used a wide range of rotational maneuvers to land, employing a greater average ...

B. lue bottle flies (Calliphora vomitoria) use a diverse set of movements to successfully land on a ceiling, according to a study published in Science Advances October 23.Bo Cheng, a mechanical ...

My experience is that blue and green bottle flies are perfectly able to escape out of the door when they want to. I suspect they mostly just don’t fancy it – possibly because they like the ...

Take this (disgusting) experiment: here, scientists had green bottle flies choose which scent to follow. Either the flies could follow the delicious scent of dog poop (a yummy treat, at least to these ...