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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 ...

If your first instinct upon noticing a pesky fly buzzing around your person is to swat at it in the hopes of sending it elsewhere or even killing it, well, you're pretty normal. We don't often think ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Sitting outside on a summer evening always sounds relaxing until flies and mosquitoes arrive–then the swatting begins. Despite their minuscule ...