The Analogy of Flies and Butterflies

Before anything else allow me to ask this one question first. If you were given the chance to be an insect, what would you like to be? A fly or a butterfly?

Well, I know most of us will obviously pick butterfly. Of course with its own beautifully designed four separate wings enthusiastically flying around blooming flowers, it would really made you want to be a butterfly. Unlike a fly, you can mostly spot them on a dirty places, wastes of humans and animals, and carcasses or dead organisms. But did you know that despite their differences in physical appearance, in some part they also share the same functions?

This fascinating fact was shared to us by our instructor in Environmental Science. And according to her, this two insects definitely hold similarities in our environment. We already knew that butterflies used to pollinate plants in our garden and carry it to the other plants which helps them to produce new seeds. However, they not only sip nectars on flowers and vegetables as their source of food, like flies they can also be found sipping mud and wet sand and feeding on feces, wastes and corpses which were usually done by males.

On the other hand, flies, aside from sitting around dirty places and known as one of the illness spreaders, also plays a vital role in the nature, most especially in pollination in both natural and agricultural system like butterflies. In fact, they have been documented as the primary pollinators for many plant species. According to a study, flies were the most important pollinators after bees but the bees got most of the credit (Pain, 2021). They are often neglected and underappreciated but they entail important function more importantly in food chain.

With all the these information, I have come into a deep realization that flies and butterflies are just like people. You know, each of us has varied physical appearances and status in life. Some were even criticized because of their odd look which does not fit to the standards of the society. People with bizarre appearances tend to get judged more often yet persons with gorgeous physique got the most of the credit which are also mostly treated well. For example, I once watched some social experiments by content creators on YouTube.

I can now find it hard to reseach the video cause it is actually just a long time ago but you can find the same video too. And allow me to share what I watched that time. One of it is when a girl was dressed poorly and the management made her ugly. So she was tasked to ask for help and the situation is to borrow a phone from random strangers to contact her family cause she was lost, but people whom she go near with hesitated to respond for her help. But when she was dressed sexily and made her look like a rich person, many people now wanted to help her knowing the fact that people were oblivious that the two are just the same person.

In such case, biases and stereotypes are evident and pretty rampant in our society nowadays. We can conclude, that life is not really unfair, people are. That is why people need to know that just like flies and butterflies, this society might composed of different people with multiple personalities but all of us have our own uniqueness which can be a great asset to every lives of other people, that may also contribute to make this world wonderful.

May it be a fly-like or a butter-fly like, we must appreciate everyone of us. Respect everyone's differences, in that way— in our own little ways, we can help and spread positivity in this world full of adversities.

Hi, thank you for passing by. I hope you learn something. God bless.

Disclaimer: The content is just based on my own experiences and opinions with other facts researched on the internet. This blog is also for entertainment use only.

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Source/s:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-much-do-flies-help-pollination-180977177/