tell me some good things about the flies

@btroje flies consume carcasses and quickly, imagine the stench on the highways waiting for bacteria to consume all the roadkill without help from flies. We use fruit flies Drosophila melanogaster in genetic experiments as the generations are so brief we can determine changes quicker then we can in longer lived species of animals.

@btroje They're an incredibly diverse group - we have 7000+ species in the UK. They include vast numbers of detritivores & carrion-feeders, which break down rotting and dead things; they include the midges - one of which is the only known pollinator for cocoa; flower flies and many other nectar-feeding groups are very important pollinators - possibly better than bees; Plenty of predators such as robber flies and empidoids, which catch and eat other insects. My group, the parasite flies, attack the larvae of a lot of moth & beetle larvae (eventually killing them) and this means they are important bio-controls on crop pests. Of course flies also include the mosquitoes & horse/deer flies (mammal blood feeders), bot & warble flies (sub-dermal parasites of mammals), fruit flies and crop pests etc. so they aren't all good but most are benign and form a vital part of the ecosystems around us

so you could see this one? my first attempt was a fail

yeah, i think 2 tries ain't bad...lol. sometimes you just gotta punt.

If it is a polar bear it is up to you to save him. I stop at dogs

ya know, it's looking a lot more like a dog now.