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ColinB

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Re: Flies!
« Reply #15 on: October 28, 2021, 02:35:39 PM »
Is this a white car thing? White reflects heat, methinks. So relatively warm perhaps for a fly on a cooler day?
Umm, not quite. White reflects heat so doesn't absorb as much heat as a darker-coloured object. Put a white object next to a black one in the sun and the black one will be warmer.

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Re: Flies!
« Reply #16 on: October 28, 2021, 02:39:01 PM »
Is this a white car thing? White reflects heat, methinks. So relatively warm perhaps for a fly on a cooler day?
Umm, not quite. White reflects heat so doesn't absorb as much heat as a darker-coloured object. Put a white object next to a black one in the sun and the black one will be warmer.

I was thinking it might reflect heat onto the flies rather than the surface being warmer for their feet. Interesting subject.

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Re: Flies!
« Reply #17 on: October 28, 2021, 02:50:08 PM »
White is very bad camouflage for a black fly,  but flies do prefer some colours to others, and avoid some colours

https://news.ufl.edu/archive/2012/02/color-is-key-in-controlling-flies-uf-researchers-find.html
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Re: Flies!
« Reply #18 on: October 28, 2021, 02:53:19 PM »
So those with the white interiors, keep your windows shut :)
Let's be careful out there !

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Re: Flies!
« Reply #19 on: November 07, 2021, 11:38:02 AM »
A neighbour a few years back had a MINI in Volcanic Orange. The files loved that.

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