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This statement "Houseflies have been used in the laboratory in research into ageing and sex determination." is not correct. This research was done with Drosophila melanogaster not Musca domestica. See [1] AND [2]Theflyelectric (talk) 20:26, 8 January 2018 (UTC)Theflyelectric
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On 24 September 2018, a post on [https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/9id4u7/til_that_the_japanese_used_houseflies_coated_in_a/ Reddit produced a spike in traffic of nearly 135000 views. The average in the period per day is about 2000. Shyamal (talk) 04:08, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
"Flies process visual information around seven times more quickly than humans, enabling them to identify and avoid attempts to catch or swat them, since they effectively see the human's movements in slow motion with their higher flicker fusion rate."
This doesn't really make sense. Our speed of movement isn't limited by our speed of vision. BioImages2000 (talk) 11:45, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
The header "distribution" has no information under it. It should either be removed, or the section should have some information about distribution added. NicoleMerie (talk) 03:57, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
I don’t know how long an average housefly pupa is but it’s got to be more than 1.2 mm. CrinklyCrunk (talk) 23:19, 10 October 2023 (UTC)