How to catch a fly.
If you have ever wondered how to catch a fly without hurting it, here is how. And yes, I made this up.
Materials: clear glass that doesn't refract the image much if you look through it, paper, loose fly, you.
Procedure: Wait until your target has landed. It is optimal if your fly is tired. Hold glass as indicated in picture, with thumb and pointer around the lip. Descend over your fly carefully, directly from above.
Once you are over your fly, he will try to escape by flying straight up, because he cannot see the bottom of the glass. The little poo eating genious will fly right in.
How it really is:
how your fly sees it:
Once your fly is in the glass, quickly lower it to the surface your fly was on before. Then, with him trapped, put a paper underneth and prepare him for release into the wild. Perhaps give him a treat as a reward, or take him for show and tell if he was good.
Final result:
Materials: clear glass that doesn't refract the image much if you look through it, paper, loose fly, you.
Procedure: Wait until your target has landed. It is optimal if your fly is tired. Hold glass as indicated in picture, with thumb and pointer around the lip. Descend over your fly carefully, directly from above.
Once you are over your fly, he will try to escape by flying straight up, because he cannot see the bottom of the glass. The little poo eating genious will fly right in.
How it really is:
how your fly sees it:
Once your fly is in the glass, quickly lower it to the surface your fly was on before. Then, with him trapped, put a paper underneth and prepare him for release into the wild. Perhaps give him a treat as a reward, or take him for show and tell if he was good.
Final result:
posted by Abraham at 6:37 PM
2 Comments:
you're too funny.
you should put that on CMM.
I like your fly, poor fellow. I guess if you eat poo you are genuis if you are a fly. Looks like you have picked up some spam though.
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