Plate 01 . Diptera . Muscidae
FLY
- 1compound eye . about 4,000 lenses
- 2wing . around 200 beats a second
- 3foot . also a tongue
- 4front legs . for rubbing
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.
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.
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.
Feet
He tastes with them. The sugar was approved on landing.
Hands
The rubbing is cleaning. He would like you to think it is scheming. It is partly scheming.
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.
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.
| # | time | missed by | what he did |
|---|---|---|---|
| no swings logged. click anywhere near him. | |||
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.