FLY WARS
Mexican gastronomy made of flies’ pancake.
Pedro, one of the last flies’ "fishermen" of Mexico.
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…
In Mexico, flies are used to cure eyes’ inflammation.
Information campaign on atomic flies in Nicaragua.
To protect Nicaragua, millions of sterile atomic flies are "bombarded". Dropping tests.
Tube of aerial dropping of flies.
Alan R. Terrell, responsible for the atomic flies dropping campaigns. Dropping tests.
Medicine man treating a patient struck down by the sleeping sickness.
Zoda, African medicine man, uses the active principles contained in specific leaves to fight against the sleeping sickness.
In Africa, some ancients still believe that tse-tse are being born in this giant tree : the Iroco.
Doctor examining a patient struck down by the sleeping sickness.
Sleeping sickness detection operation in Ivory Coast.
Installation of traps against tse-tse flies, thanks to satellite cartography.
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.
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.
Jean-Marie Gheerardijn is an artistic dictator. The raw material of his works : flies killed in planned hecatombs.
Flies bodies are preciously conserved with meticulousness. Distorted bodies are systematically taken out.
Jean-Marie Gheerardijn’s works are dedicated to all the human hecatombs.
Stored in a chest, thousands of flies are crowded waiting to come to life again in Jean-Marie Gheerardijn’s works.
John Church's nickname is "Maggot Man". According to him, maggots can treat patients 24 hours a day.
Used by surgeons, grubs and maggots attack the dead tissues of wounds.
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.
Fond of flies and flowers, Peter Noble studies pollen-gathering flies, bees’ competitors.
Test to analyze and understand the fly sight.
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.
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.
In the past, flies were judged for their misdeeds in animals' courts.
The flies, one of the seven wounds of Egypt.
For many artists, the fly represents the death.
In the past, many artists used fly as a "trompe-l’œil". Today, she is used in public toilet's basins.
Thierry Berrod, author-director of the film "Fly wars".
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.
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.
Calliphora fly seen with an electron microscope. She has become the competitor of bees. Pollen-gathering flies satisfy themselves with any perfume…
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.
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.
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.
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.
Fly grub cut into marine mammal's bone. Inuit's custom from the 19th Century.
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