How long would it take...

[MichaelJ]

how long would it take for flies to gather 'round a dead body after death? (If say you died outside or near an open window)
Would it be a few hours or days or what?

[positively-negative]

That would depend on the number of flies around to start off with...

[TJR423]

Anytime your done touching it.

[MichaelJ]

Well seriously, in a game I am making for the Halloween contest next month, there is a dead body, if it has been there for about 12-ish hours would it have flies buzzing around it?

[Leidolfr]

At 9/16/10 09:54 PM, Animator1mike wrote: how long would it take for flies to gather 'round a dead body after death? (If say you died outside or near an open window)
Would it be a few hours or days or what?

Texas = 10 min, first fly or two
Iceland = fuckin.....day(s)?

[MichaelJ]

Thanks. (Location of body: Virginia)

[zooos]

What an odd question that has no context that isn't suspicious.

[HighWay]

It really depends on the climate. Basing it on the location of the body, I would say about a few hours to a day.

[Lintire]

Flies are really climate and surrounding driven creatures - while location counts, the primary factor is temperature. In your more cold climates, there really are no flies, period. In your warm climates, should take a few hours, so the body being there for 12 hours and having flies is entirely plausible. In your hot climates, it's a matter of minutes - they'd literally just see the body and investigate asap.

[TheBlueRaven]

depends on whether I'm there scaring the flies away with my enormous erection