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Flies evade your swatting thanks to sophisticated vision and neural shortcuts

  • Written by Jamie Theobald, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, Florida International University
Flies evade your swatting thanks to sophisticated vision and neural shortcutsFly brains can process images very quickly.www.shutterexperiments.com/Moment via GettyImages

Sitting outside on a summer evening always sounds relaxing until flies and mosquitoes arrive – then the swatting begins. Despite their minuscule eyes and a brain roughly 1 million times smaller than yours, flies can evade almost every swat.

Flies can...

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