Adult houseflies are about 1/6 to ¼ inch long with reddish-brown eyes. Females are usually larger than males and have wider spacing between the eyes. They have two membranous wings, sponging or non-biting mouthparts, a dull gray body, and four narrow black-lengthwise stripes on the thorax.
Musca domestica lives in close proximity to humans and domesticated animals, commonly found in homes, food markets, farms, and ranches, hovering around decaying matter, garbage, feces, and human food. They prefer warmer (optimal 30 °C) and drier conditions but are able to breed at a reduced rate throughout colder seasons, typically in livestock stables.
House flies are strongly suspected of transmitting at least 65 diseases to humans, including typhoid fever, dysentery, cholera, poliomyelitis, yaws, anthrax, tularemia, leprosy, and tuberculosis. Flies regurgitate and excrete wherever they come to rest and thereby mechanically transmit disease organisms.
While the house fly, like other saprophagous, coprophagous or necrophagous flies, does not cause any direct damage to animals or buildings, they are considered a serious pest because. They can form flying swarms inside barns and hen houses, making them a particularly annoying deterrent for employees. Adult flies can spread many different pathogens from contaminated breeding sites to healthy animals and people over large distances.
We are at Tazkiah using four basic principles of pest management important in controlling house flies: sanitation, exclusion, non-chemical measures, and chemical methods. 056 544 9123
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