LORD OF THE FLIES: The Asheville Citizen ran this cartoon in its April 27, 1910 issue. The satire depicts Dr. Lewis M. McCormick's anti-fly campaign. His efforts first began in Asheville in 1906. On ...

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Good superheroes save the day, but only the greatest crusaders (like Wolverine, Wonder Woman, and more) get big-screen origin stories establishing their iconic legacies. While the show-stopping fly ...

July 13 (UPI) --The Indiana State Police said a semi driver "tried to swat" a fly that flew in through his window and ended up crashing on the highway. Troopers said Christopher Walker, 28, was ...

Time appears stretched for the humble housefly. Photo / Getty Images Trying to swat a fly is like trying to shoot Keanu Reeves in The Matrix because time appears to move more slowly in the minds of ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The brains of flies are wired to avoid the swatter, U.S. researchers said on Thursday. At the mere hint of a threat, the insects adjust their preflight stance to flee in the ...

Suetonius, in his biography of Domitian, noted that at the beginning of his reign the Roman Emperor would spend hours in seclusion every day, doing nothing but catch flies and stab them with a stylus.

According to a Washington Post published on Friday, president Trump made Reince Priebus swat a fly for him during a meeting in the Oval Office. A source told The Post that a fly was buzzing around ...

The maddening ability of flies to dodge a carefully aimed newspaper has finally been explained - and scientists believe they know how to combat it. High-speed cameras showed that upon spotting a ...