These flies are really freaking me out, man. I’ll be so sure they are all dead, and then I come back from brunch an hour later and they are flying around like nothing’s the matter.
They look pretty healthy now. I kind of have another experiment in mind, though. Hmm, let’s see how this goes.
Okay, that . . . did not make me feel any better. Basically, I took one of the flies out of the jar and wacked the hell out of it with my history textbook. Then I put it back in the jar. I know, that’s weird, but I wanted to see if it would come back to life.
It did not. The other flies, however, immediately landed on the bottom of the jar and are now standing in a circle around it. What is this, an insect funeral? This is too strange.