To what altitude can a common fly ascend without being in an aeroplane or space ship?

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Answer 1

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Answer 2

A zone about 25 feet above the Earth's surface (depending on atmospheric conditions and species of insect) is known as the flight boundary layer, where wind speed is equivalent to maximum insect flight speed. Because wind speed increases with height, an insect needs to hang out below the flight boundary layer if it wants to be able to fly in any direction in its quest for food, a mate or shelter.

However, insects are commonly found at much greater heights. Mosquitoes have been collected at 1,000 feet. Houseflies can probably get that high, too. Migrating insects such as locusts and butterflies ascend much higher. Ground-based radar has detected insects nearly two miles above the surface.

At these heights, insects can maneuver about, but the wind is too strong for them to travel upwind. This is why, for example, plagues of locusts lasting several years tend to spread according to the direction of the prevailing winds.

Insects cannot fly if it is too cold. Temperature decreases with altitude, but in a temperature inversion, a layer of warm air sits atop cooler, denser air. Temperature measurements with kites have shown that migrating insects concentrate in the warm air at the top of temperature inversions.

Answer 3

Well, most insects can fly as long as they are in air that's about fifty degrees      Fahrenheit, or warmer. So, if air temperature at ground level is about seventy      degrees, insects have about thirty-six hundred feet before they hit the ceiling, so to      speak, and it's too cold. On ninety-degree days, that border is at about six thousand feet.

Answer 4

Depends on the altitude of the t**d

Answer 5

Well flies can fly at any height! I have been to space 34 times and i have seen normal everyday house flies in space! So from this it shows us that flies dont need oxygen to survive (or they carry little oxygen tanks of their backs)  and that they can fly at any height!

Answer 6

It depends on if it is a European Common Fly or an African Common fly..

Either way they can ascend much higher if they are in the mouth of Swallow.