Flies
House Flies (Musca Domestica)
Features
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5-8mm long
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Grey thorax with 4 black stripes
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4th wing vein sharply bends
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Eggs are laid in decaying vegetable matter in batches of 120-150
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Takes 8 hours-3 days for eggs to hatch
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Adults live for 4-12 weeks
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Attracted to UV light
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Located in homes, shops, restaurants, factories, farms and rubbish tips
Lesser House Fly (Fannia Canicularis)
Features
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4-6mm long
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Grey thorax with 3 black stripes
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Wing veins running straight down to edge
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Eggs are laid in semi-liquid decaying organic matter in batchs of up to 50
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Takes up to 24 hours for eggs to hatch
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Flies irregular triangular or square pattern
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Not particulary attracted to UV light
Fruit Flies (Drosophila)
Feature
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3mm in size
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Light brown in colour with red eyes
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Tendency to hover
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Lays 15-25 eggs per day
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Normally found in breweries, bars, fruit and vegetable proceesors
Filter Flies (Psychodidae)
Feature
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2mm in size
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Grey colour overall appearance
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Hairy wings
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Minute eggs are laid in groups of 10-100 on wet decaying matter, on the filters of sewage beds and other damp areas.
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Abundant from April to August
Bluebottle Flies(Calliphora Vomitoria)
Feature
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6-12mm long
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Shiny metalic blue in colour with black hairs
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Lays as many as 200 eggs on meat, dead animals and cheese
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Larvae (maggots) feed on and bore into the flesh
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Adult feed on feces, decaying meat and garbage
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Normally located in homes, farms, butchers, fishmongers and anywhere dead animals are present
Cluster Flies(Pollenia Rudis)
Feature
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6-10mm long
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Has golden brown hairs on its thorax
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Eggs are laid on soil under leaves and hatch in 1 week
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Larvae bores into earthworms and lives there throughout the winter. In spring it bores back out and enters the soil
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Adults live outdoors during the summer congregating on posts, walls and fences in the sun
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Adults migrate indoors during the autumn, often in high numbers to roof voids where they cluster together