About this trail:
If you think your house is plagued with flies this year, consider this: If a pair of houseflies began mating on the first day of summer and every member of every generation of offspring survived and reproduced at the maximum rate, the resulting fly population would cover the Earth three feet deep by the first day of fall!
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If you think your house is plagued with flies this year, consider this: If a pair of houseflies began mating on the first day of summer and every member of every generation of offspring survived and reproduced at the maximum rate, the resulting fly population would cover the Earth three feet deep by the first day of fall!
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Farm-by-farm control of insects with pesticides harms the environment and is often uneconomical. An FAO/IAEA international conference in Malaysia in June proposed a better solution: area-wide insect control using biological techniques. For example, tsetse flies - vectors of the livestock disease trypanosomiasis - have been eradicated on Zanzibar Island, Tanzania, by "fighting flies with flies".
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They say necessity is the mother of invention. So six years ago when a Sudbury mother was aghast at her son’s ill-reaction to bug bites and was confronted with his desire to brave the wilds of Algonquin Park on short notice, she decided to put her talents as a seamstress to work to develop an effective means of keeping the bugs at bay. The result: Squito Wear, and another Canadian small business success story.
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This is for real and not an animation movie! Watch fighting stances and aggressive moves of flies, female ones in this case and also other gesturs like fencing, feeding and the rest of it. This is recorded and set in slow motion to real music to make your watching it worth your dollar...Try it...
