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Q: Why are flies attracted to rotten meat?
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DO Flies come from rotten meat because they always appear where meat is rotting?

Flies are attracted to meat and will lay eggs on the meat, where they quickly hatch into maggots. But the flies are not indigenous to the meat.


What insect is responsible for pollination with a stinky Odor?

There are some foul-smelling flowers that smell like rotten meat. And what are attracted to rotten meat? Flies. Flies are everywhere and especially around dead animals that is rotten because rotten flesh is the best habitat for the larvae of a fly (maggot).


Why are flies around red trilliums?

That they're attracted to the plant's odor and pollen is the reason why flies are around red trilliums [Trillium erectum]. This particular trillium gives off a distasteful smell of rotten meat. Plants with unpleasant smells tend to be pollinated by bats, beetles and flies.


Does rotten meat produce flies?

Yes, if flies lay eggs in exposed rotting meat their larva will feed themselves until developed and then turn into new flies. If the rotting meat is not exposed the flies will not be able to lay eggs and there will be no emerging flies.


Why do some flowers smell like rotting meat?

Those flowers are pollinated by flies, which are attracted to the smell of rotting meat. Yuck.


What color do flies like the most?

Calliphoridae (also called blow-flies, carrion flies, bluebottles, greenbottles, or cluster flies) are pollinators but their larvae are scavengers.Thus attracting the fly to both red and green colors (resembles rotten meat) and yellow and white that resembles flowers.They do not seem to be attracted to blue colors.


Can a nonliving thing create a living thing like can rotting meat create flies?

Rotting meat doesn't create flies. Rotting meat attracts flies that lay their eggs on the meat. These eggs hatch and maggots emerge and proceed to feed off the rotten meat. After a period as a chrysalis, the maggots change and emerge as adult flies.


What does the corpse flower get its name from?

The smell it produces to attract its pollinating insect (flies). It smells like rotten meat.


Why do flowers smell like rotten meat?

That they need to attract pollinating beetles or flieswith this particular scent is why certain flowers smell like rotten meat.


Is a fruit a decomposer?

yes and no because fruit flies i think only eat rotten fruit and no because they don't eat meat


What is rancid meat?

rotten


Are butterflies attracted to urine and feces?

Yes, and they are also attracted to rotten fruit. However, most butterflies are attracted to flowers.