Hello everybody,
Flies do not like some colors:
https://news.ufl.edu/archive/2012/02/co ... -find.html
Already on the blue background they make big eyes :-)
LG, ADi
flies & colors
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Re: flies & colors
Excellent image, as usual
Not only house flies, years ago in Tanzania I learned that tsetse flies are heavily attracted by blue and the simpler targets to kill them were just a blue fabric square impregnated with insecticide. Wearing blue jeans is not advisable in tsetse territories (their proboscis are able to bite through them)Adalbert wrote: ↑Fri Nov 12, 2021 2:30 pm...
Flies do not like some colors:
https://news.ufl.edu/archive/2012/02/co ... -find.html
Pau
Re: flies & colors
The same is true of South American biting flies. Blue jeans are a big mistake. Black isn't too good either.
Zebra stripes have evolved as fly-disruptors!
https://www.science.org/content/article ... r-landings
Zebra stripes have evolved as fly-disruptors!
https://www.science.org/content/article ... r-landings
Re: flies & colors
Hi Pau, hi Lou,
Thank you for the comments!
Probably all flies like the blue color and dislike the zebra stripes.
Best, ADi
Thank you for the comments!
Probably all flies like the blue color and dislike the zebra stripes.
Best, ADi