Reviving flies

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ceramist, 15.08.2010 16:35

I met in the memoirs of one of the inmates of the Peter and Paul Fortress:

"In the summer, with the onset of good weather, the inhabitants in my cell increased: together with me, five flies settled here, and I watched with interest their behavior and lifestyle. I gave each of them a name and eventually learned to distinguish them. In the fortress library I found the correspondence of Benjamin Franklin with his friends in Great Britain. In these letters, he explained how he managed to revive the flies he found in a barrel of wine that was sent to him from England for his birthday. Similarly, I managed to save my fly friends when they got caught in a mug of milk brought to me for breakfast, and this success gave me a lot of pleasure."

I wonder what is the revival of flies by Benjamin Franklin?

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15.08.2010 20:00, ceramist

I searched the Internet. Here's what I found:

"How to revive a drowned insect without artificial respiration (scout's recommendations).
If you or someone accidentally or intentionally drowned a fly in a bowl of soup, it doesn't matter! You won't have to give her CPR. Spare yourself that. Due to the fact that the fly breathes not by the internal organ (s), but by the actual surface of its body, in order to save the unfortunate victim of a careless fly-hating cook, you just need to put the lifeless body of a winged friend in salt and wait for a minute. Everything is your first life saved."

We will have to conduct an experiment. If this is true, then again I wonder: why does salt have a revitalizing effect on a fly?

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