I for one welcome...

November 1, 2005 10:34 AM

Fly training (embedded video)
posted by fire&wings (13 comments total)

Cool Beans...
posted by watercressprincess at 10:46 AM on November 1, 2005

Somehow I read this as "flying train"...
posted by tula at 10:51 AM on November 1, 2005

I am guessing that the white paper she places them on is soaked with some kind of neurotoxin.
posted by StickyCarpet at 11:00 AM on November 1, 2005

That works for carpets too, I think.
As an aside - are those actually flies? Their abdomens look mothish to my eyes.
posted by metaculpa at 11:08 AM on November 1, 2005

FlyPower
posted by dhartung at 11:11 AM on November 1, 2005

I have a call in to PETA now.
posted by mygoditsbob at 11:27 AM on November 1, 2005

how do you get a watermelon that small...?
posted by tbonicus at 12:03 PM on November 1, 2005

best of the web
posted by neilkod at 12:37 PM on November 1, 2005

Could she train them to kill themselves? Filthy little disease vectors.
posted by BrotherCaine at 1:53 PM on November 1, 2005

No, but she can train them to kill each other . . . in gladiatorial combat!

. . . with watermelons
posted by jenovus at 2:24 PM on November 1, 2005

ditto, tula
posted by es_de_bah at 2:33 PM on November 1, 2005

thanks for this, fire&wings, my labmates all work with flies and were appropriately impressed :)
posted by dhruva at 11:13 PM on November 1, 2005

I didn't think you could train insects. Boy was I suprised.
posted by vodkadin at 3:40 PM on November 2, 2005