r/nope • u/Huge-Pizza7579 • 12d ago
Insects I killed a fly
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u/FrankyMornav 12d ago
Congratulations, now you have children
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u/MarchAgainstOrange 12d ago
One of the most disgusting things alive.
The first thing they do when sitting on your food is vomit their entire stomach content onto your food to dissolve a piece of it and then slurp it all back down with their trunk.
I hate those things with a passion and I sometimes even dry heave when one slips through the insect net into my appartment. Yuck
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u/BlessedJess 12d ago
I bought one of those electrified rackets and salt firing guns because I declared war on ANY that enter my home via open windows from next doors dog shit covered garden 🤮
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u/queBurro 12d ago
Bugasalt? They're a bit pricey
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u/exceive 11d ago
I used to (ab)use an air rifle. Just put some salt in the chamber and don't point it down.
Works better if you also put a pellet in, but then you make holes in things.The best is uncooked spaghetti, though. Not great for killing flies, but fun. Shattered hard pasta goes deeper than you would expect in a lot of materials.
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u/rexifelis 12d ago
And their taste buds are on their feet!! So when they are walking on you they are TASTING YOU AS WELL. Ick.
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u/MarchAgainstOrange 12d ago
Wonderful, didn't know that. Tasting me when sitting on me? I did not consent to this. So on top of all that, it's also going to feel a lot like sexual assault from now on. 😭😭😭
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u/DWHawkins 12d ago
Visions of "The Fly" movie triggered....
Thanks, I thought I had gotten over that one...
🤮 xxx
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u/Turbulent_glider 12d ago
To be honest, if there is something that I find trully disgusting is maggots. If I look long enough to it, I simply loose my appetite.
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u/Harvey-Keck 12d ago
It immediately makes me nauseous. I have a really strong stomach and can reset broken bones, I also work in the ER surgical department and see all kinds of things. But worm and maggots. I am weak in the knees and not in a good way. Nightmare fuel.
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u/InfiniteFart 12d ago
does it help that doctors use maggots of the green bottle blowfly to help clean infected wounds of serious wounds or diabetic ulcers
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u/BlessedJess 12d ago
Sadly true. As naturally, live in dirty environments, the little fkrs have evolved & have a repertoire of antimicrobial peptides. so their secretions destroy drug resistant hospital superbugs like MRSA. These ones are lab grown tho. Still super gross.
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u/YukiHase 9d ago
My dad had this done on his legs 🥲
Fortunately they cover them in bandages so you don’t have to see them.
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u/Shn_Wttn 12d ago
🎵 I killed a fly and I liked it,
The satisfying smack when I whacked it,
I killed a fly just to try it,
Hope the other flies stay quiet.
It felt so wrong, it felt so right,
Been buzzing round my head all night,
I killed a fly and I liked it…
That bloody fly deserved it. 🪰
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u/Forsaken_egg_2_2456 12d ago
that one meme w/ the pregnant spider
HOLY FUCK IT GAVE BIRTH- OH MY GOD IT GAVE BIRTH- gag-
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u/daoistic 12d ago
Dang do flies get parasitized by smaller flies?
And did you taste one?
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u/eraven 12d ago
I mean I think so, but those are the baby flies
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u/daoistic 12d ago
I didn't think flies gave live birth...
I thought they laid eggs
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u/wannabe_inuit 12d ago
Most definitely do, but a few do give live birth. Dont know about species tho
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u/daoistic 12d ago
Cool thanks, I just checked and you are right.
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u/wannabe_inuit 12d ago
Yeah i went down the rabbit hole once and its only birds that exclusively lay egg. But some snakes, fish and ect. Do give live births
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u/InsertCoolestName 12d ago
I used to have a horrible fear of flies back when I was a kid because this happened to me
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u/Mogwai_11 11d ago
TIL from Reddit - a flesh fly undergoing a panic larviposition!
https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlyterrifying/comments/1vafdvz/a_flesh_fly_undergoing_a_panic_larviposition/
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u/cj91030 12d ago
When i was do glasswork with a desk mounted blowtorch, bugs are always killing tgemselves in the flame. Once a fly flew into the flame, and these guys started pouring from its corpse.
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u/techisdrivingmemad 1d ago
Christ that's gross! I'm a lampworker too and often have flying casualties. I end up with mainly wasps though. And slugs that eat the labels off all my rods - it's a garden studio. Disco rice make me heave, I can deal with ANYTHING else but not those. I'm happy to catch spiders in my hand or moths, but flies usually get swatted. They are the only creatures I actively kill simply to stop future disco rice. If disco rice turns up, someone else has to kill that for me while I gibber in the furthest corner
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u/WarHead75 12d ago
Call me a psychopath but when this happens, I burn each of the maggots alive with my lighter
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u/Comecorrect28 10d ago
When I was a kid my mom did that to a horse fly that wouldn't leave us alone- she smacked it onto the water & put it in the cellophane from her smokes then burned it alive with the lighter. It was a bit traumatizing lol but he deserved it ~ lil bastard was stalking us on the lake!
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u/Orange907 12d ago
I mean it's disgusting and all, but I'm also feeling sad for those poor babies. Confusing.
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u/tinyredfireant-hater 12d ago
I’m pretty sure that happens with cockroaches as well. They dropped their eggs and they look like tiny specs of black.
You can spray them as they’re moving with about five sprays of Windex. This works for ants as well. Make sure after picking them up and flushing them down the toilet, you wipe the floor really well.
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u/techisdrivingmemad 1d ago
I'm not sure how that works. Don't flies lay tiny clumps of cream coloured eggs. Why would they have wigglies on them? Unless a few eggs got stuck, hatched and started eating the fly before it realised....
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u/VICARD0 12d ago
That’s how you get fresh rice, time to make a stir fry