flying, stinging insect algorithm →[More:]So I've had my kitchen door open all day and, not atypically, a f'ing bee/wasp/yellowjacket thing has flown in. Usually they fly into my living room, where I can open a bunch of windows and pray they find their way out. But this mf is determined to stay in the kitchen. The problem is that the kitchen windows don't take up as much wall real estate as my living room windows, nor do they fully open.

So, anyway, watching this insect try to find its way out, I think I've discovered its flight algorithm. Here it is:

1) Fly toward the brightest thing in your field of vision (e.g., a window full of blue sky).

2) If you hit an invisible barrier (i.e., a window), fly/crawl upward.

3) If flying/crawling upward leads you to an area which isn't as bright as the area you were initially attracted to (e.g., the top of the window), fly/fall down a few inches.

4) Repeat until you escape or are dead.

If you have windows that open fully, there's some hope that you can open them all the way such that when the flying-stinging-thing reaches step 4, it flies away. But my kitchen windows only open a couple of inches, and the flying-stinging-thing isn't likely to fall down far enough in step 3 to make it out. Argh!