Flies are immigration professors – it’s time to get some credit

While I was wandering through flower -rich promoters on the eastern coast of Cyprus, I hardly saw my car. The air was full of small black points, such as the lead that exceeded me. I moved the car door and breathed a sigh of relief once inside. I was surrounded by millions of flies, amid an incredible deportation event that I saw at all.

The deportation cameras I and I use them to monitor these insects calculate approximately 6000 flies per meter per minute. The beating of a travel fly is more than 25 miles per hour (with the help of the wind) hurts me enough to make you want the shelter quickly.

All of these flies have just traveled at least 60 miles (100 km) across the open sea from the Middle East to Cyprus. This journey is part of the spring migration to northern Europe.

Butterflies and installation are well -known immigrants in insects, but not because they are the most number. This title is given to flies. I studied all insects Immigration through Cyprus and Pyrenees Mountains On the border France Spin. Flies constitute approximately 90 % of all immigrants. However, they have been constantly ignored by scientists, and their environmental contribution has been greatly estimated.

My colleagues and I began to change this. We spent months gathering written sources mentioned flying from anywhere in the world. The results we have reached now in Biological reviewsWe can change our conception of flies forever. Previously, no one really knew how much flies transmitted, however they are the most important and more important environmental aspects of all ground immigrants.

Air migration was part of the history of mankind for thousands of years. In the exit book, when Egypt did not allow the fate of Moses, God sent plague from flies to change his opinion. Then God removed flies from the earth until “No fly remains”. This last Bible quote is the key.

If these flies are identified, the identity of the columns that come out of the Nile, which is known to be collected in huge numbers, has been identified for several days. Because they all disappeared without a trace, this indicates a huge migration of flies. Egypt is on an important fly road. Therefore, the airline migration may have been important enough to be the subject of divine intervention.

Flies migrate to reproduction and move to exploit seasonal food resources. All over the world, it is mostly Females that migrate. They were registered to migrate through high mountain paths in Himalayas MountainsHundreds of miles on the sea in the sea Mexico Bay And in millions of them they migrate Western Europe. Surprisingly, while working in the Maldives, I saw Forcipomyia Midges uses their soft hair to stick to the fee suites to lift the elevator over the Indian Ocean.

Vibrant roles

Flies are very important for the planet and us. There is no other group of ground immigrants (including vertebrates like mammals) varied in environmental terms like flies. More than half (62 %) of all migratory flies, including the hovercraft, are pollinators. Without them, Production of food crops You will review.

They migrate, flies Transfer and dispersion Pollen between flowers. This can help plants adapt to climate change by maintaining genetic diversity.

Many types of migratory fly (34 %) are a decomposition, ensuring that the planet is not covered in mold and animal bodies. one Ticket Show only 50 homes (The local Moska) – The autumn is similar in environment Moussa autumn Migration south via the Brans Mountains in Millions It can degrade up to 444 kg of pork.

The environmental roles of flies are not all positive. My last studies appear One -agricultural crop provides a lot of food for some types of migratory flights (18 %), which later became crop lesions. Some (16 %) carry diseases, such as mosquitoes that migrate huge distances and achieve diseases such as malaria.

But immigrant flies have a very positive effect on the planet. The larvae are eaten Trillion From aphids every year in southern England. It is already known that insect migration is more The important method that nutrient plants need to grow on Earth is transferred Flies are the majority of insects that transport nutrients.

Movement and subsequent death of migratory flies, whose bodies contain elements, such as Phosphor and nitrogen What plants need to grow, can be vital for soil health in the soil as well. Migratory birds have been observed Nutrition on and Move at the same time The migrants also fly, and perhaps use it as fuel for their trips.

We just wake up to the importance of flies. We hope, it is not too late to protect them. one The German study found this The number of migratory ornaments that eat Aphid has decreased by 97 % over the past fifty years. Less number of APHID airspace means more areas that eat crops as well as fewer pollinations. This is a terrifying census that can have severe consequences.

The sunrise of hope exists, however. These wonderful immigrant flies contain many young people so that if we improve the landscape connection, reduce the use of pesticide pesticides and provide appropriate habitats, they can apostasy very quickly. We need these flies as much as we need the air we breathe. So the next time you see a fly on your window, open it and leave it. In front of him a long way and such an important work to do it.

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