Fly

In 2001, Garnet Hertz produced an art project in which a complete web server was implanted into a dead fly.
. The 1986 science fiction film The Fly revolves around the accidental merger of a human and a fly. In 2005, the Grand Am continued on in fleet sales while the G6 replaced it in the Pontiac lineup. [2]. It is interesting to note that the Grand Am was Pontiac's bestselling car before being replaced. An example is the painting Portrait of a Carthusian by Petrus Christus, showing a fly sitting on a fake frame. The coupe will most likely be dropped at the end of 2006, with the entire Grand Am line being replaced by the Pontiac G6, which is based on the GM Epsilon platform.

In art, extremely life-like flies have sometimes been depicted in the trompe l'oeil paintings of the 15th century. The last Grand Am sedan rolled off the assembly line on December 10, 2004. The world's rarest known fly family is Eurychoromyidae-Broad-headed Flies [1]. Despite its success, the Grand Am model line finally came to an end. Entomologists try to distinguish between true flies and other orders by hyphenating the names of true flies (house-fly, horse-fly, crane-fly), but giving the members of other orders unhyphenated names, either with two unconnected words (caddis fly, alder fly) or with a single, concatenated name (dragonfly, stonefly). In the American market, when the Sunfire sedan was dropped for 2003, the Grand Am sedan was the only compact sedan in Pontiac's lineup. The word "fly" also refers to insects of various orders other than Diptera. The Pontiac Grand Am enjoyed success as a compact sedan filling a niche as a comfortable, affordable, reliable, yet sporty car.

For more information, see Maggot therapy. Safety features as dual front airbags and anti-lock brakes were now standard throughout the line, as well as traction control (ETS). Through the ages maggots have been used in medicine in order to clean out necrotic wounds. Each variant added various features such as power windows and locks, dual rear exhausts, a more powerful engine (3.4 L V6) than the Ecotec, or alloy wheels. Maggots are bred commercially, as a popular bait in angling, and a food for carnivourous pets such as reptiles or birds. This generation of the Grand Am was sold in five variants, the SE, SE1, SE2, GT, and GT1. Some maggots are leaf miners. In 2002, the design was further refined by removing the ribbed body cladding for a "cleaner" appearance.

Various maggots cause damage in agricultural crop production, including root maggots in rapeseed and midge maggots in wheat. The very first 1999 Grand Am rolled off the assembly line on June 15, 1998. By use of this data, plus other signs, the approximate time since death can be estimated by forensic scientists. In 1999, the Grand Am was redesigned once again, with its only identical sibling being the Oldsmobile Alero. These measure about 2-3 days, 3-4 days, and 4-6 days (for average houseflies or bottleflies) since the eggs were laid. There were minor cosmetic changes in 1996, and the last year of this Grand Am was 1998. An instar I is about 2-5 mm long; instar II 6-14 mm; instar III 15-20 mm. The top engine choice was a 2.3 L 16-valve High Output Quad-4 which produced 175 hp (130 kW) at 6200 RPM and 155 ft·lbf (210 N·m) at 5200 RPM.

Maggot identification uses a classification called "Instar" stages. This generation was available with either a four or six-cylinder engine. At the height of the summer season, a generation of flies (egg to adult) may be produced in 12-14 days. The redesign was radical compared to the 1989 refresh of its midsize cousin, the Pontiac 6000, due to the fact that it no longer bore a resemblence to its X-body ancestors. The size of the house fly maggot is 9.5-19.1mm (3/8 to 3/4 inch). In 1992, the GM N platform was redesigned, resulting in a newer looking Grand Am. By their stage of development, these maggots can be used to give an indication of the time elapsed since death, as well as the place the organism died. It was based on the N platform, along with its siblings the Buick Somerset and the Oldsmobile Cutlass Calais.

Some types of maggots found on corpses can be of great use to forensic scientists. The Pontiac Grand Am was reintroduced as a compact car by GM in 1985 to replace the Phoenix. The eggs are laid in decaying flesh, animal dung, or pools of stagnant water - whatever has ample food for the larva. . The fly life cycle is composed of four stages: egg, larva (commonly known as a maggot), pupa, adult. From 1985-2006, all Pontiac Grand Ams were built in Lansing, Michigan. . It had two 3-year runs; 1973 to 1975 and 1978 to 1980, after which the A-body Grand Am was cancelled.

In addition to being an essential part of the food chain, some species of flies spread pollen, hasten the decomposition of plants, animals, and dung, and, in the case of about 5000 species of Tachina flies, eat other insects. The Pontiac Grand Am began in 1973 as a midsize car on the GM A body. The horse-fly eats bits of flesh torn off of its prey, mosquitoes feed on blood and nectar, and the housefly eats a semi-digested liquid created by mixing-enzyme rich saliva with its food. The diet of flies varies heavily between species. A few, like Ormia ochracea, have very advanced hearing organs.

Some flies have very accurate 3D vision. The compound eyes of flies are composed of thousands of individual lenses and are very sensitive to movement. Flies rely heavily on sight for survival. The larva of a fly is commonly called a maggot.

Other flies, such as the horse-fly (Family Tabanidae), can inflict painful bites. The house-fly (Musca domestica) and mosquito are particularly common amongst humans. Flies are common amongst humans and some can cause the spread of serious diseases. These typically have one pair of true wings, with the hind wings modified into halteres.

As defined by entomologists, a fly (plural flies) is any species of insect of the order Diptera. alder fly, Dobson fly, and fish fly: Megaloptera. scorpionfly and hangingfly: Mecoptera. sawfly: Hymenoptera:Tenthredinidae.

mayfly: Ephemeroptera. stonefly: Plecoptera. butterfly: Lepidoptera. dragonfly and damselfly: Odonata.

caddis fly: Trichoptera. firefly: Coleoptera:Lampyridae.