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I'm going to talk about an insect today. And it's an insect nobody likes, unless you're a spider, and you'd like it for dinner. The insect is the fly.
Uggg. Did you ever wonder why it is so hard to hit a fly with your hand? It's almost impossible, unless it is Katie's uncle Don, the Marine fighter pilot. He catches them in midair. Why, I'm not sure, but then sometimes Marines do strange things I'm told.
Anyway, the reason it's so hard to hit a fly is because it has 4,000 eyes. Yep, that's what I said, 4,000 eyes. They are all enclosed in the large thing that looks like a normal eye on the side of its head. And they all work independently of each other. The fly never has to move its head, or its big eye, as it is looking all around itself at the same time, all of the time. Cool, isn't it?
"Calliphora vomitoria Portrait" by JJ Harrison (jjharrison89@facebook.com) - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Calliphora_vomitoria_Portrait.jpg#/media/File:Calliphora_vomitoria_Portrait.jpg
The good thing about a fly is that if he isn't trapped in your house, he can travel up to 60 miles in a day. So chase him out of your house, and you probably won't see him again.
Keep your chin up.
Robert P. Rabbit