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| 02 May 2016 02:22 PM |
besides be food for frogs
seriously unless they do something like keep us and our dogs alive i want them to be extinct asap
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North1233
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| 02 May 2016 02:28 PM |
some flies pray on dangerous insects
they actually help pollinate
they keep the food chain stable
they help break down dead flora and fauna
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| 02 May 2016 02:30 PM |
| Aaaaaaaand North just got back from biology. |
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North1233
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| 02 May 2016 02:30 PM |
@litle
i just googled that stuff
i really don't know jack about biology
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| 02 May 2016 02:31 PM |
| And I know like everything about human biology because I'm homeschooled and my mom dissected a cadaver. |
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| 02 May 2016 02:34 PM |
@litle
o k...
i don't really care.
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| 02 May 2016 02:37 PM |
They act as food for spiders, who are very important in maintaining the ecosystem. Many spiders kill thousands of insects on their own. There are hundreds of spiders in your house. Without spiders, the insect population would be out of control, and many of those insects destroy crops. Complete famine would happen if spiders weren't around to control the population, and flies are a primary food source for spiders.
On top of that, they pollinate, but not nearly on the level bees do. Some are species are predatory but a lot of them are herbivores, opportunistic carnivores, or are just simply scavengers.
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| 02 May 2016 02:39 PM |
@dapper
don't forget that they help decompose dead flora and fauna
otherwise we'd have dead deer bodies piling up everywhere and dead trees, too
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| 02 May 2016 02:40 PM |
"don't forget that they help decompose dead flora and fauna
otherwise we'd have dead deer bodies piling up everywhere and dead trees, too"
They're also kinda secondary in that, similarly to how they're secondary pollinators. But yeah, they definitely help with decomposition.
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| 02 May 2016 02:54 PM |
Well, they lay eggs in a dead organism, and the larvae eat it when they hatch.
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| 02 May 2016 02:56 PM |
"Well, they lay eggs in a dead organism, and the larvae eat it when they hatch."
Right, like I said, they're secondary in the decomposition role. They're important in decomposing dead flora and fauna, but they're not as integral as maggots, for example.
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| 02 May 2016 02:56 PM |
| they're good sources of protein |
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| 02 May 2016 02:58 PM |
Don't they poop on nature or something
That's fertilizer isn't it |
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| 02 May 2016 03:00 PM |
"That's fertilizer isn't it"
Well, everything's fertilizer. It's not something that's exclusive to flies.
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| 02 May 2016 03:01 PM |
"everything's fertilizer" *pisses on flower* |
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| 02 May 2016 03:03 PM |
| They keep the frog population alive |
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| 02 May 2016 04:29 PM |
Simply put: "they get rid of poop and dead stuff" |
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| 02 May 2016 04:29 PM |
sadly, flies actually are important to the ecosystem
but apparently mosquitoes arent that important |
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| 02 May 2016 04:31 PM |
When I was a kid a fly landed on my popsicle and I put it back in my mouth
HOW AM I STILL ALIVE? |
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