What Really Happens When A Fly Lands On Your Food?

Have you ever wondered what really happens when a fly lands on your food? In this video, we will explore the disgusting world of mouthparts, regurgitation, digestive juices, and potential contamination. We will also examine the science of fly behavior and decode what really goes on when they land on your food. Discover the unsettling effects of fly landings and the potential contamination that follows. In this revealing journey, we expose the disgusting and potentially harmful impact of these creepy crawlies on your favorite meals. Ready to discover the truth? Hit that play button and embark on this educational journey with us. #sometimesscience #science #flies #education

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[SometimesScienceYT]

Thank you to everyone for all of the outstanding comments and support. We are busy working on a few new videos and have not had the opportunity to respond to every comment, but we have enjoyed reading each of them. We are a new channel, and this level of engagement is amazing. Thanks again for all of your kind words and encouragement!

[jasonblankenship]

You forgot the part where the fly rubs its hands together Because their evil plot 🪰🪰🪰

[mmcquerry]

Why do flies come in your house but never know how to go back out? 🙄

[lynnjacobs]

Let me add: The number of harmful microbes a single fly -- or even a few flies -- can leave on your food is probably so small that it's very unlikely to make you sick. If this wasn't so, people would get sick after nearly every summer picnic. Let's not scare people unnecessarily.

[lemarch]

Thank you for confirming what I learned about flies 40 years ago. I have had a horror for flies ever since. It wasn’t mentioned in the video, but flies automatically defecate when they land, so even by landing, they’re contaminating their surroundings. Outside, okay. Inside? Death to flies.

I discovered how to get flies to stop bugging you (this only works at night). Flies are sometimes hard to kill especially if you’ve swatted and missed. Easier to kill them when they’ve landed and swatting and missing makes them too agitated to settle.

Turn off all lights in the room the flies are in and use the light to lure them into the bathroom. They will follow the light. Turn off all lights except the bathroom.

When the flies are in there, shut the door. They are much easier to kill in a smaller (usually) lighter area.

Edit: In consideration for those who are empathetic, this could be the time you shoo them out the bathroom window. No bathroom window? Trap in a jar and release. 🙂

[mathiasguanah]

This doesn’t change the way I feel about flies, I’ve always hated them.

[Hufsa]

I'm not a fan of flies but understanding how they contribute to the ecosystem made me appreciate them a bit

[stevegonzales]

So flies are very beneficial…. They’re still dying if they enter my house 😂

[OfentseMwaseFilms]

I hate flies even more after this video!🤬

[patricj]

I have wondered about this. Every time you set a table with food outside in the summer, flies will show up with their interest in your food. It is simply impossible to completely avoid any fly landing on any part of the food you have on the table. The very knowledge that just before landing on your food these flies may have visited a nearby dog poo or carcass is really a bit disgusting.
Could this be a reason for some unexplained stomach flus?

[EmperorNerox]

In college one of my professors was an insect biochemist, he did experiments where he'd have flys land on Petrie dishes for various amounts of time and then see what grows. Even the shortest landings grew some absolutely vile stuff. Never eat anything a fly landed on even for an instant

[SargeScum]

I respect you for not adding the irritating sound when they fly.

[bigfriki]

Those images of starving african children's faces being swarmed with flies hit very differently now.... 😨😟

[ptt]

I'm from Colombia, and naturally there's a lot of flies, this becomes a problem in restaurants because they just fly around your food the whole time. But one solution that I actually found pretty effective is that these restaurants will light small candles around the food. When they do this, no flies come to the food AT ALL. I'm guessing because the open flames would quickly burn their wings.

[utej.k.bemsel]

Flies give us our daily dose of germs that keeps our immune system trained.

[randomstuff-qush]

I recall one deployment I was on where flies in the dining facility were a real annoyance. There were so many that keeping them off your food was impossible. Then, I noticed something interesting. The flies were drawn to the broccoli the dining facility served. So, I’d get broccoli, put it on a small plate, and the flies would all go there, leaving the rest of my meal alone. Not sure why it worked.

[MessagerOfHell]

Ever since I was a kid, my folks told me to never eat something that certain colorful flies land on. The green and blue ones were the worst since those types preffered incredibly filthy things to land on (anything decomposing or any type of excrement).
In general, I got nothing against a fly; if it bothers me, I just swat it away. But if it intrudes in my home then there's a good chance it's not leaving alive.

[carlcat]

As disgusting as this video is, I'm sure we've all eaten food that had flies on it and we're still here so I wouldn't worry too much, just try a little harder to protect your food from flies and try not to be grossed out.

[MS-]

Now, please explain why flies like to annoy the hell out of people, who just want to sit down and watch a movie? No food is involved. They just land on your forehead and dare you to strike them down. Then they enjoy your frustration as you destroy your home in an attempt to end them. They know you hate them, and you are trying to destroy them; but they just keep coming back for more, don't they? Why!

[jayl]

People saying I never eat the food after a fly lands on it…do you know how many other things you’ve eaten where you didn’t know a fly landed on it (or just how long they’ve been on it)?
If you’ve eat from any food truck, fast food place, or even a good quality restaurant, you’ve eat something a fly has left behind and you’re still alive to tell the tale. Yes it’s gross to think about but the truth is that it’s a fact of life.