FLYMusca domestica . plate 01
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Plate 01 . Diptera . Muscidae

FLY

A common housefly, photographed close up
  1. 1compound eye . about 4,000 lenses
  2. 2wing . around 200 beats a second
  3. 3foot . also a tongue
  4. 4front legs . for rubbing
specimen 01 status: pinned

Common housefly. Arrived before you did.

hold still. he is looking at you.

ii.

Field notes

Observed at the kitchen window. All of it true.

  1. Time

    His eyes refresh around 250 times a second. Yours manage about 60. From where he sits, you are a slow nature documentary about a man with a newspaper.

  2. Eyes

    About four thousand lenses in each, wrapped nearly all the way around his head. He saw the hand before the hand had made up its mind.

  3. Feet

    He tastes with them. The sugar was approved on landing.

  4. Hands

    The rubbing is cleaning. He would like you to think it is scheming. It is partly scheming.

  5. Wings

    Two hundred beats a second, give or take. That is the sound at three in the morning, right next to your ear, and then not.

  6. Schedule

    Two to four weeks, start to finish. He plans to spend all of them in your kitchen.

iii.

Your record

Every swing you take on this page. Kept on this device only.

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The housefly standing on a sugar cube

iv.

The sugar

The only thing he lands on on purpose.

contract . solana

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type sugar anywhere, or tap it, and see who shows up.