spidey

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Spidey n. / 'spī-dē

A gene that controls the stickiness of flies.  Ordinarily it causes them to grow a protective waxy coating.  Switch it off and gunk accumulates on the fly's skinny legs until it gets stuck on a wall or other surface and dies - a novel approach to pest control.

Wired October 2016 by Jonathon Keats