Would a fly without wings be called a walk?

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Would a fly without wings be called a walk?

No, it would be a six-legged spider. And a zero-legged spider would be a raisin.

It would be disabled

I'd hug him and squeeze him and call him George.

I'd swat the fly to put it out of its misery.

Although whether or not its even aware that it's miserable is debatable. Flies are all instinct. Their tiny brains aren't complex enough to do much else but tell the fly to "fly, find food, find a mate, breed, lay eggs, die".

Flies are extremely annoying, disgusting little buggers and carry and spread all kinds of filth and disease.

Same as humans, but you can't exterminate them without going to prison or whatever.

A fly without wings would instantly become...a "land crustacean". Like a coconut crab.

A fly without wings is still an insect, and a filthy one at that. And it's much easier to kill because it can't escape by flying.

I know I sound like a psychopath, and I probably am. But when I was living in the country with my parents in country we'd have a really bad housefly problem in the summer. We didn't live in a dirty house or anything, we'd just get lots of flies for some reason. I can still feel their sticky little feet on my body when I was trying to sleep early in the mornings.

If a bee was in my home, however, I would just catch it in a jar and release it outside.

I asked a lady I know who is now living somewhere in the USA, but she came from Kenya "Why don't your mud huts have windows?" She said " Because of the flies". Puzzled, she then explained that flies want to avoid the dark, so won't go in them. She said people from the western world come and built western world houses and they are full of flies! But the mud huts they live in just don't have flies.

Why not flightless fly?

And why not call all birds, bats and other creatures that can fly, other than the fly, also a 'fly', too?


I'll just call an insect fly without wings a disgusting walking crumb to swipe whatever surface it's currently walking.

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When I see a fly, I realize how wonderfully they are made. They truely are amazing little things!

Apparently some think bees are conscious...and, presumably, flies are candidates, too.

When I was a child, I would see plenty of butterflies in the summer. At night I would see fireflies, which are not really flies, but beetles, glowing on my front lawn all summer long. Now if you see them at all you're lucky.

It's because humans have been using so much pesticides on their lawns and gardens the butterflies and fireflies have probably gone extinct. And climate change. Honeybees are dying out. Meanwhile, flies, mosquitoes, roaches, fleas, ticks and bedbugs are just as rampant as ever. They've even become more resistant to pesticide. It's like only the bugs that most people hate and spread disease and destruction have a will to live.