Why do flies always vanish when you fetch the fly spray?

[purplepoppy]

You're sitting watching TV and a fly decides to piss you off by constantly buzzing your head. You fetch the spray from the cupboard and on your return it's nowhere in sight. So you sit with your finger on the trigger like a demented gun nut looking to celebrate their constitutional right to blast a hole in a trespasser. Eventually you give up and sanity returns and you put the can down. Seconds later the flys back, you stretch out for the can and the flys disappeared again.

How do they do that?

[FunkyMonkee]

I'd like to know why every time I kill one, 2 more show up? There were NONE in the house 3 days ago and I tend to keep the place locked up like Fort Knox! Next day, there's 3 of them buzzing around!! I kill all three and two more show up!! I kill them and two more show up!! I've killed 7 or 8 in the past 3 days and there's STILL one here buzzing me every few seconds!!

[Adronicus]

Flies have many eyes. They also puke & lay eggs on everything they land on. Annoying for sure but its debatable whether humans would exist wothout them, dead body's would take far longer to rot & the diseases so much worse. They're observant with their many eyes & have a will to survive.

[Crafteroon]

For the same reason school shootings stop when you ban assault weapons and restrict gun availability. They know it works. Except flies in the US, they claim the numerous deaths on chemtrails and unchristian flies leading others to bad paths in front of a spray can.

[andreasderjuengere]

From my German background: gasifying only is efficient when you don't get interrupted - or the pest will return.
Use triple the amount of what you used until now, and empty each spray can to maximize efficiency. No matter if your neighbours complain about the smell; or not.
Be quick.
Enjoy.

[andreasderjuengere]

One ''like''! one ''like'' - I have an ally :D

[bean2k21]

Little do you know, that fly is just a decoy for the millions of others who are feasting in the corpses of your ancestors.

Go ahead, punk. Make my day.

[Waldoe]

they 1st check you cabinets, to see if you have fly spray. If you do they check the can so they will be able to recognize it... then 2 or 3 of them are assigned as "spotters"... Then when you get the can out you will hear them yell "RAID" and they all leave... don't you watch the NEWS?

[Lost_in_the_Woods]

Imagine you were harassing someone and they were like, "alright, time to get the shotgun"

I'm pretty stubborn but I'd fuck right off before they got back.

[AviatorTom]

It's called fly radar. And of, by the way, the flay that buzzes you is almost always female... females know everything, have eyes in the back of their heads and can smell a rat miles away.

[MattSmall]

Because they understand human tactics. Sun Tzu tells us, if you know your enemy and know yourself, you need not fear a hundred battles.
Their mission is to annoy us, they've studied us for millenia, and they've gotten very good at what they do...

[NathanDavis]

that's one good thing about Texas' summer heat... not even the flies will come out during the day... nowhere to be seen

[nisnaia]

They know!
They were put on this earth to make mammals go crazy.

[serious]

The spray must be suffocating them out and hence they vanish from your site

[exitseven]

They have seen these commercials on TV.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/cQou6PrTP6A

[Anonymous]

A combination of confirmation bias and them being complete cunts.

[PatriceONeal]

Rolled up newspaper is a lot more fun + less chemicals.

[Charliefretz329]

They have a sixth sense, same as my wife who always disappears when I have a boner.

[Guy13]

The flies are bloody brilliant. aren't they...

[Smashingdoozy]

You have to be sneaky

[Sparkie460]

They like to torment everyone

[Zolly99999]

Sneaky buggers aren't they

[Tstrbrainer]

I've always had that question

[Pinay_ako]

He playing games 😆.