Do flies get itchy?
Moment of Um
American Public Media
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2023
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Lots of animals feel itchy sometimes! Bears rub their backs on rough tree trunks, dogs love a good belly scratch and birds itch themselves with their feet. But what about flies? Do they get itchy, too? We asked Johns Hopkins graduate student Abel Corver to help us find the answer.
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| 0:00.0 | From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um. |
| 0:04.0 | Answering those questions that make you go, |
| 0:08.0 | um... |
| 0:10.0 | Um... Moment of them comes to you from you from age. Um, um, um, um, |
| 0:23.2 | moment of um, comes to you from APM studios. |
| 0:26.2 | I'm Nicholas Cage, the fly. |
| 0:28.2 | Um... |
| 0:30.2 | I have a serious problem. |
| 0:33.0 | Hello? |
| 0:35.0 | No, this is not Nicholas Cage, the actor. |
| 0:39.0 | This is Nicholas Cage, the housefly. |
| 0:42.0 | You would not believe how many times a day that happens. I'm just so |
| 0:48.2 | tired of being mistaken for an incredibly talented Academy Award winning actor. |
| 0:54.0 | Anyway, as I was saying, I have a serious problem. |
| 0:58.0 | My grandma just knitted me a turtle neck sweater. |
| 1:02.0 | And don't get me wrong, it's pretty cute. |
| 1:05.0 | I like the hot pink stripes and bows and fluffy pom-poms, |
| 1:09.0 | and the shape is very flattering for my round little fly body, despite the fact that I don't have much of a neck. |
| 1:15.0 | But, and this is a big butt, my new sweater is wool, and not just any wool, the thickest, scratchiest, wool you can imagine. |
| 1:28.0 | And my grandma is expecting me to wear it to dinner tonight. |
| 1:32.0 | I just know if I put this thing on it's going to make me so |
| 1:36.4 | itchy, right? Don't flies get itchy? Ellis was wondering the same thing. |
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