I am also reminded of the interview he gave where he was harrassed by a housefly and swatted or grabbed it with “ cat-like reflexes” or some such crap, as the fawning media described it.
Beelzebub, indeed.
Rotting stench is particularly attractive to flies. I used to milk cows in the evening for a dairy that was down the road and never once out of the thousands of flies in the milk barn in July had a fly land on my face for more than a fraction of a second. The cows and all the cowshit were much more attractive.
Re “Cat-like reflexes” - its actually easy to do and it science-based. Flies on the ceiling, the table, wherever first launch vertically and so you swipe above them and with “normal” timing you can grab them. Once done, I just throw them against the wall. Luckily we don’t have many flies around here otherwise I’d have to vacuum more often. ;-)