Zebra stripes.
It works this way: Horseflies see horizontally-polarized light. Vertical stripes mess up the flies' vision. The most efficient stripe width for screwing up the ability of the flies to see happens to be the width of the stripes on zebras.
(H/T)
Smarter than
2 days ago
Zebra stripe tattoos will be the rage in fly country.
ReplyDeleteblood sucking animals and horizontal stripes, makes me think congress critters in horizontal prison garb.
ReplyDeleteBlood sucking bugs, both.
Eck!
So if I dress my horse in striped pajamas...
ReplyDelete.... how it got into your pajamas, I'll never know.
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