Talk:Housefly

Research

This statement "Houseflies have been used in the laboratory in research into ageing and sex determination." is not correct. This research was done with Drosophila melanogaster not Musca domestica. See AND Theflyelectric (talk) 20:26, 8 January 2018 (UTC)Theflyelectric

It is correct. You are right that fruit flies have been important model organisms, but if you read the cited sources for the housefly (see the Science section) you'll see it has played its part too. Chiswick Chap (talk) 20:59, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

References

Reddit spike

On 24 September 2018, a post on [https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/9id4u7/til_that_the_japanese_used_houseflies_coated_in_a/ Reddit produced a spike in traffic of nearly 135000 views. The average in the period per day is about 2000. Shyamal (talk) 04:08, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

see the human's movements in slow motion

"Flies process visual information around seven times more quickly than humans, enabling them to identify and avoid attempts to catch or swat them, since they effectively see the human's movements in slow motion with their higher flicker fusion rate."

This doesn't really make sense. Our speed of movement isn't limited by our speed of vision. BioImages2000 (talk) 11:45, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

I have looked at the sources and some related sites - flicker fusion rate is indeed used as a proxy for the the rapidity with which light is detected. Of course evasion involves - detection, nerve signal transfers, and muscle movement - all of which contribute to reaction speed so it is unclear what you are pointing too - the human (in)ability to swat flies or the flies' ability to evade? The text refers to the latter. Shyamal (talk) 04:19, 25 September 2019 (UTC)

Header with no information

The header "distribution" has no information under it. It should either be removed, or the section should have some information about distribution added. NicoleMerie (talk) 03:57, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

That section was lost after some vandalism earlier this year and I have replaced it. Thank you. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:19, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

Pupae are a bit bigger

I don’t know how long an average housefly pupa is but it’s got to be more than 1.2 mm. CrinklyCrunk (talk) 23:19, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

It is 8 mm as given in the lead. Not sure if there was some vandalism - my "who wrote that" plugin is currently not working quite right. Shyamal (talk) 01:58, 11 October 2023 (UTC)