It happens to be the season when mosquitoes and flies go wild, but it is true that there are not as many flies as there are mosquitoes today. This has a lot to do with our improved sanitation today, after all, flies need to lay their eggs on manure pits and rotting food, while many rural toilets have now been converted to squatting, and the shorter disposal cycle for waste has greatly reduced their hatching.

Researchers believe that the longer a female fly killed by a fungal infection dies, the greater the spread of these fungi, releasing more chemical signals