by Robin | Apr 20, 2022 | Flies, Pest Identification
The housefly (also house fly, house-fly or common housefly), Musca domestica, is the most common of all flies found in homes, and indeed one of the most widely distributed insects, found all over the world; it is often considered a pest that can carry serious...
by Robin | Apr 20, 2022 | Flies, Pest Identification
Drosophila are small flies, typically pale yellow to reddish brown to black, with red eyes. Many species, including the noted Hawaiian picture-wings, have distinct black patterns on the wings. The plumose (feathery) arista, bristling of the head and thorax, and wing...
by Robin | Apr 20, 2022 | Flies, Pest Identification
Flesh-fly maggots occasionally eat other larvae although this is usually because the other larvae are smaller and get in the way. Flesh-flies and their larvae are also known to eat decaying vegetable matter and excrement and they may be found around compost piles and...
by Robin | Apr 20, 2022 | Flies, Pest Identification
Crane flies are insects in the family Tipulidae. Adults are very slender, long-legged flies that may vary in length from 2-60 millimetres (0.079-2.4 in) (tropical species may exceed 100 millimetres or 3.9 in). The larvae of the European Crane Fly are commonly known as...
by Robin | Apr 20, 2022 | Flies, Pest Identification
The cluster flies are the genus Pollenia in the blowfly family Calliphoridae. Unlike more familiar blowflies such as the bluebottle genus Phormia, they do not present a health hazard because they do not lay eggs in human food. They are strictly parasitic on...
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