They're tiny, yet supremely irritating. Australian bush flies are known for trying to crawl into your nose, eyes and ears and they're on the uptick in Central Australia.
What's next?Hot, wet conditions to the north and east of Central Australia have provided the perfect breeding conditions for bush flies in the red centre.
"They can beat their own wings and their own muscle power and fly perhaps 10 kilometres a day," Dr Evans says. "They don't actually need to eat a lot of food because they did most of their eating of food when they were babies.""That's why they come to us and other animals," Dr Evans says. "They'll avoid that really hot part of the middle of the day, and then they'll come back out again and disappear by the evening.
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