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\"HouseI like to drink while I cook—generally a nice pinot noir like the 2011 Hahn Winery<\/a>. But I’m not a big drinker, so I often end up leaving half a glass of wine undrank. Most of the time, this results in one or more house flies dead in the wine the next day. I’ve thought about this a lot and I have a hypothesis that I plan to test next summer when the flies come back.<\/p>\n

According to Fruit Fly Traps<\/i> (which deals with fruit flies, but I doubt it matters), flies like liquids<\/a> like vinegar, apple cider, orange juice, and wine. Thus they land to drink it and drown because they are stupid. I am skeptical.<\/p>\n

I think that flies are significantly less likely to die in orange juice than in wine. The alcohol in wine vaporizes at a significant rate. I think that while drinking the wine, the flies pass out from lack of oxygen and thus drown.<\/p>\n

This is pure speculation. If anyone knows anything about this important scientific question, please let me know. Otherwise, when the flies return I will present my results.<\/p>\n

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The picture above is from the Daily Mail<\/i>, “This close-up picture shows a house fly drenched in water vapour, which look like large globules of water under the intense magnification.” It is from an article A Little Too Close For Comfort?<\/a> It has a number of really great close-up pictures of insects.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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