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For the discovery that bubble blowing helps with fly thermoregulation, see Gomes+18 who used thermal-IR imaging to observe blowflies doing it. Droplets cool by up to 8°C below ambient in just 15 secs under some conditions, & when re-ingested, it lowers the temperatures of the head, thorax, & abdomen by 1, 0.5, & 0.2°C, respectively. The fly repeatedly blow bubbles, to cool further, only losing a little at a time. Lots of other interesting details in the paper too 👍 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-23670-2