Has this ever happened to you? There’s a fly in the house, buzzing around you, so you go to the cabinet to get the swatter. But as soon as you start wielding it, the little bastard disappears. You set it down, and now he’s back, taunting you.

Ok so obviously flies don’t taunt, but do they have the capacity to recognize, even instinctually, that I’m holding a deadly weapon?

  • Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    This happens to me, but with mosquitos. We have an electric tennis racket shaped mosquito killer bought from some random online store.

    Whenever I stand up to get that, when I return the mosquitoes are gone. They won’t come back until when I put the racket back away from me.

    Im thinking they might be detecting the electric charge leaking from that cheap electric racket.

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      1 year ago

      I am convinced that Moskitos have a cloaking device, they can sometimes vanish in front of your eyes.

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        1 year ago

        They do, they do. Also they have phasing abilities as well, you clap your hands thinking 100% you’ve quashed them, but then their corpse is not in your palms, and you see them flying around taunting you.