In real life, flies don't run newspapers but they do hold some other worthy jobs. One of the more unusual insects brought to us by nature is the truffle-hunting fly, for this fly is doted with an exceptional sense of smell.

Truffles are highly prized, wild growing mushrooms, which have sometimes been called fairy apples. Like the black truffle, the fly thrives in winter unlike most self-respecting flies, which die in the autumn.

The fly, through its acute sense of smell, will land in a grove atop a spot where it smells a truffle. If it is reluctant to move, the truffle hunter can be almost sure that it is a good spot to begin digging, explained Christian Larnaudie, a farmer, whose family has been hunting truffles for generations in southwestern France.

The truffle fly, Suillia gigantea meig, in the Quercy region of France is one of the eight species of the fly of the genus Suillia that have been identified.

The curious co-ordination of centipedes

Centipedes are gifted with their legs. They don't have 100 legs, but usually about 40, a pair of legs for each body segment.

Each pair of their legs is slightly longer than the pair right in front of it. That way they won't overlap and crash into each other especially when they are moving swiftly.

The giant centipede of the Amazon is the largest species in length, measuring over one foot (30 cm). Dangling from its hind legs, it eats bats, catching them in mid-flight then paralyzing its victim with a bite.