Reflections in Nature: Flies are important part of nature’s cleanup crew
In his two-line poem, Ogden Nash wrote that “God in his wisdom made the fly and then forgot to tell us why.” One Sunday a fly was buzzing around our church. I’m sure I was not the only parishioner that found it hard to concentrate on the Pastor’s sermon. With the wave of a hand, the annoying fly went from one person to another. When the fly landed on the head of an elderly gentleman sitting in front of me, my first instinct was to swat it, however, good common sense — which sometimes leaves me — took over, and I simply chased the fly away. I recall an instance during a ...
