Phorid flies are 1/16 to 1/8 inch long with a hump-backed appearance from the side. They may be black, brown or yellowish. The wings have strong, heavily pigmented veins in the front area, while the remaining veins are faint.
Adult phorid flies can often be found on flowers or on moist decaying organic matter. Because they frequent unsanitary places, they may transport various disease-causing organisms to food materials. 71 Several species breed in human corpses and are commonly referred to as coffin flies when they become problems in morgues, mortuaries, and mausoleums. Phorid flies are of great concern in healthcare facilities because of their unsanitary habits, and because larvae have been found in the open wounds of patients. Larvae feed in a wide variety of moist decaying organic matter such as dung, vertebrate and invertebrate carcasses, fungi, and decaying plant material. Common food sources include the moist residue in the bottom of trash receptacles, the moist material found in the cracks and evaporator pans of and under kitchen equipment, in elevator pits, in garbage disposals, in rotting vegetables and meats, dirty moist mop heads, faulty septic systems, and over-watered/rotting potted plants. In health-care facilities and mausoleums, fresh-cut flowers in vases are frequently the source.
Considered a nuisance pest, they are quite common in homes, cemeteries, pet stores, and health care facilities. They are commonly brought in with fresh cut flowers and animal bedding. Due to the unsanitary places they frequent, it is assumed they carry a variety of pathogens that can be transferred easily via food..
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