Why do flies fly in small circles around the centre of a room...

[thereformant]

bernoulli effect

[hungrymark]

You know, it could be something as simple as; the light is usually in the centre of the room and this is the best vantage point to see everything. If you're a fly and on the lookout for food / people with cans of RAID - then your best spot is probably the light.
High and central.

I think you're crediting houseflies with a bit too much intelligence there tbh.

[frankus]

I think you're crediting houseflies with a bit too much intelligence there tbh.

might be instinct, after all it took us millennia to discover flight but flies .. they just got lucky.

[Lixarto]

might be instinct, after all it took us millennia to discover flight but flies .. they just got lucky.

But it's not luck at all - the clue's in the name

[frankus]

But it's not luck at all - the clue's in the name

[WYNIR0]

But it's not luck at all - the clue's in the name

The rebranding once they worked it out cost 'em millions though.

[thereformant]

But it's not luck at all - the clue's in the name

"Fly" might mean something else in their language.

[frankus]

It mean's "pretty hip": Jitterbug is a dialect of Fly and as everyone knows there's not much difference between Jive and Jitterbug.

[JAYJO]

But it's not luck at all - the clue's in the name

so why no insects called a Walk,a run or a jog or a crawl, theres a hopper and a fly. What about a TW~T ?. Thats an insect that walks like one of those speed walkers in the olympics