Comments on: Window Flies, and Compound Eyes

By: K T Cat

K T Cat — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:53:17 +0000

Linked with a little bit of added research on spider brains.

By: Tim Eisele

Tim Eisele — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:10:48 +0000

I kind of like the idea of using them for bio-control of carpet beetles, but the unfortunate part of it is that the type of people who freak out over carpet beetles will probably also freak out over having a bunch of these flies suddenly appear on their windows. Sometimes you just can’t win. Although, the people who are actually concerned about carpet beetles because of the damage they do, and not just because they are “icky”, might be willing to give it a whirl with these flies. I wonder how hard it would be to rear them in captivity?

By: jt

jt — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:43:12 +0000

I like the way many common names are so intuitive (let’s call these flies that hang out by the windows “window flies” until we figure out what they are) we tend to dismiss them. I’m excited about the reports of these predating carpet beetle larvae. Someone had a question for me about bio-control for carpet beetles, but I had no answer to offer, not even a grunt. Thanks for the info on that.