19 interesting facts about flies

Some of their species live only in the wild, while others have long adapted to coexistence with man, and without people they can no longer survive.

The most dangerous tsetse flies do not bite zebras, because in their vision the striped skin of these ungulates looks like a random flickering of black and white stripes. Zebras themselves are not tameable, but locals have long used part-striped hybrids between zebras and horses in agriculture with might and main, as they are much less likely to suffer from tsetse fly bites than ordinary horses.

They are able to smell at a distance of up to 500 meters. The olfactory organs are the antennae growing on the head.

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