Plate 124
Cluster Fly
Cluster flies are a little larger than house flies, with golden hairs on their backs.
- Family
- Photoreal
- Origin
- Captured
- Habit
- Diurnal: kept on the page
- Voice
- Yes, with the sound on
- Licenses
- CC BY 4.0, MIT, BSD
How to play
Tap it to make it groom its legs and face.
Notes
They get their name from the way hundreds of them gather in attics and window frames in autumn to wait out the winter. Their young live in the soil, feeding on earthworms.
Tap it and it grooms like a real fly: the front legs rub together, reach up and wipe its face while its head dips, and then it gives a little shake. Flies clean themselves often because their legs and eyes need to stay free of dust to taste and see.
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| Cluster FlyConverted, decimated, spherical harmonics removed, recentered and scaled. | Dany Bittel | CC BY 4.0 |
Libraries
- MIT, BSD
- WebP codec (splat-transform, with libwebp)