Fly facts of the day: “A pair of houseflies beginning operations in April could produce enough flies, if all survived, to cover the earth 47 feet deep by August” (via this excellent article). At 5.8 centimeters, males of the fruit fly species Drosophila bifurca have the longest (uncoiled) sperm of any organism on the planet. That’s centimeters. The ejaculate is bigger than the ejaculator.

Fly facts of the day:

  1. “A pair of houseflies beginning operations in April could produce enough flies, if all survived, to cover the earth 47 feet deep by August” (via this excellent article).
  2. At 5.8 centimeters, males of the fruit fly species Drosophila bifurca have the longest (uncoiled) sperm of any organism on the planet. That’s centimeters. The ejaculate is bigger than the ejaculator.