The mind of an 8 year old

ebgood

Well-Known Member
Soooooo.... my lil girl just asked the most random question ever but i gotta say i actually dont have an answer and i already googled it but cant get a definate answer there so ill leave it up to the folks of RIU to help me help her so she can go to bed. ready for this?

do flies fart???????
 

Trolling

New Member
Yes, they do. At least some arthropods have symbiotic microorganisms that live in their guts and are essential for breaking down food compounds, especially those from plant matter. Among the by-products of these chemical transformations there is methane, the infamous swamp gas... and it goes out the body of the arthropod as 'farts'.

However, it's interesting to know that not all terrestrial arthropods emit methane.
Check this research article from 1994.
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/91/12/5441
The authors surveyed a wide variety of arthropods and only found methane emmissions in Diplopoda (millipedes),
Blattaria (cockroaches), Isoptera (termites), and Cetonidae (flower beetles). It's good to know that we can't "blame the bugs" in general for suspicious smells!

Google mastah!
 

cannabineer

Ursus marijanus
[video=youtube;vWl3AeODGwA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWl3AeODGwA[/video]

Video evidence. It has an accordion and is thus unassailable fact. cn
 
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