People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1896 — Fly Feet. [ARTICLE]

Fly Feet.

The means by which a fly can creep up a pane of gluss or walk on a ceiling have long been the subject of contention among scientists, some claiming that the fly foot isl a sucker, others that adhesion 1b effected by the aid of a viscous fluid exuding from the foot, and others again that the fly walks by means at a ciliary apparatus which' answers the purpose of a hook.