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Mexican
gastronomy made of flies’ pancake.
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Pedro,
one of the last flies’ "fishermen" of Mexico. |
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According
to Dr. Rulieta Ramos Elorduy, flies contain 50 % more proteins
than a hamburger, their digestibility is 5 to 6 times higher,
and it’s delicious…
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In
Mexico, flies are used to cure eyes’ inflammation.
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Information
campaign on atomic flies in Nicaragua. |
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To
protect Nicaragua, millions of sterile atomic flies are "bombarded".
Dropping tests.
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Tube
of aerial dropping of flies. |
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Alan
R. Terrell, responsible for the atomic flies dropping campaigns.
Dropping tests. |
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Medicine
man treating a patient struck down by the sleeping sickness. |
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Zoda,
African medicine man, uses the active principles contained in
specific leaves to fight against the sleeping sickness. |
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In
Africa, some ancients still believe that tse-tse are being born
in this giant tree : the Iroco. |
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Doctor
examining a patient struck down by the sleeping sickness. |
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Sleeping
sickness detection operation in Ivory Coast. |
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Installation
of traps against tse-tse flies, thanks to satellite cartography. |
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In
Belgium, Marcel Leclerc is the father of criminal entomology.
He uses maggots and flies to date the death of victims and determine
the circumstances of the murders. |
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Marcel
Leclerc and his wife practice the wet umbrella hunt to catch flies.
They have one of the biggest collection of flies in the world. |
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Jean-Marie
Gheerardijn is an artistic dictator. The raw material of his works
: flies killed in planned hecatombs. |
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Flies
bodies are preciously conserved with meticulousness. Distorted
bodies are systematically taken out. |
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Jean-Marie
Gheerardijn’s works are dedicated to all the human hecatombs. |
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Stored
in a chest, thousands of flies are crowded waiting to come to
life again in Jean-Marie Gheerardijn’s works. |
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John
Church's nickname is "Maggot Man". According to him,
maggots can treat patients 24 hours a day. |
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Used
by surgeons, grubs and maggots attack the dead tissues of wounds. |
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Jean-Francois
Ferveur from the National Center of Scientific Research works
on the erotic personality of flies. He tries to understand the
influence of the brain and of odours on the flies’ courtship
ritual. |
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Fond
of flies and flowers, Peter Noble studies pollen-gathering flies,
bees’ competitors. |
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Test
to analyze and understand the fly sight. |
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Pr.
Nicolas Franceschini spies the flies’ eyes. Through his
research, he tries to understand the functioning of their neurons
to reproduce their sight in electronic circuits. |
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Some
flies take up residence in hot water sources and lakes. Feeding
themselves with microscopic algae, they also practice diving by
creating an air lock. |
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In
the past, flies were judged for their misdeeds in animals' courts. |
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The
flies, one of the seven wounds of Egypt. |
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For
many artists, the fly represents the death. |
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In
the past, many artists used fly as a "trompe-l’œil".
Today, she is used in public toilet's basins. |
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Thierry
Berrod, author-director of the film "Fly wars". |
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Tse-tse
fly and her stinging rostrum seen with an electron microscope.
With this rostrum, the tse-tse introduce, when sucking blood,
parasites which transmit the sleeping sickness. |
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Fly's
eye's facets seen with an electron microscope. Fly's eyes are
composed of 3.000 individual lenses which permit her to have a
360 degrees vision. |
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Calliphora
fly seen with an electron microscope. She has become the competitor
of bees. Pollen-gathering flies satisfy themselves with any perfume… |
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Fly's
wing seen with an electron microscope. The fly's wing is composed
of hairs situated on the top and the side of this wing to improve
the air flow. |
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The
fly has invented the zipper! Indeed, to dissolve food, the Calliphora
fly sends her saliva which weeps through the many zippers of her
rostrum. |
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Fly's
claw and sucker seen with an electron microscope. Completed with
microscopic hairs perfectly adhesive, which allow to the fly to
stay in any position. |
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Mutant
fly seen with an electron microscope. Since the genotype of the
fruit fly is easy to manipulate, new species of fly are being
created…and even patented. |
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Fly
grub cut into marine mammal's bone. Inuit's custom from the 19th
Century. |