This fly has been bugging me all day long...and just a second ago he dived bombed into my computer desk... Poor fly is no longer with us... Little fucker committed suicide... May he rest in peace in bug heaven...
When I see a thread titled "What in the crap"? And it's about a fly.. I need to wonder what you are doing....LOL....
i don't think i've ever seen a fly die on it own. i usually smack the hell out of it long before that.
n. pl. can·thar·i·des In both senses also called Spanish fly. A brilliant green blister beetle (Lytta vesicatoria or Cantharis vesicatoria) of central and southern Europe. cantharides (used with a sing. or pl. verb) A toxic preparation of the crushed, dried bodies of this beetle, formerly used as a counter-irritant for skin blisters and as an aphrodisiac. very unpleasant.
i have a dead one squished on our ceiling that dave keeps forgetting to scrape off. my daughter is convinced that our house is "berry berry broken" now.