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Siwastaja:
Along with spiders, I like the common houseflies, they are great pets. Zero costs, you don't even have to buy them; they just appear out of nowhere, they find something to eat by themselves, it's funny to watch how they use that integrated vacuum cleaner like thing to enjoy spilled coffee or something, or watch how they carefully rub themselves clean, part by part, only to start over right after being finished. Good company, and no vet bills.

jpanhalt:
@Siwastaja
Don't bother inviting me to diner.  ;) Have you read about "myiasis?"  We had a patient who celebrated Chinese New Year at a popular local Chinese Restaurant.  The cause of her illness was, relevant to your comments, ingestion of maggots from improperly washed vegetables.  Anything odd that a physician sees gets referred to the microbiology laboratory.  It was a common house fly.

Here's a nursery rhyme in America, "There was an old lady who swallowed a fly..."  (https://wordsforlife.org.uk/activities/there-was-old-lady/#:~:text=There%20was%20an%20old%20lady%20who%20swallowed%20a%20spider%2C,%2D%20Perhaps%20she'll%20die!) 

.RC.:
Speaking of parasites, I read recently in the news of a person where surgeons removed a live worm out of her brain. 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-66643241

jpanhalt:

--- Quote from: iMo on August 31, 2023, 03:08:15 pm ---All the flies were here, say, 300.000.000 years before the eevblog era..  >:D

--- End quote ---

Jurassic Park?

Edit: My advisor collected amber.  It's amazing to see a virtually perfect fly preserved in something that is not quite old, but very old nevertheless..

metrologist:
Maybe not a jab but a full overhand hook. Of course, I usually slap them into the wall or something else hard.

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