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FLY IDENTIFICATION CHART:
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Pests |
Description |
Breeding Habits |
Life Cycle |
Management |
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Non-Chemical |
Chemical |
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House Fly |
About 1/4'' in
length; dull gray in color; thorax marked longitudinally with 4 dark
stripes; abdomen pale and fourth wing vein is angled. |
Warm organic material
such as animal & poultry manure, garbage, decaying vegetables and fruits
and in piles of moist leaves and lawn clippings. |
6-10 Days |
Sanitation and
destruction of breeding sites; tight fitting garbage containers and
screens on windows and doors. |
Larvicides, residual
and space sprays; baits and trapping. |
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Stable Fly |
Looks much like the
housefly, but its needle-like mouthpart reveals its predilection for blood
meals. |
Green vegetation,
seaweed and bay grass deposits and animal manure. |
8-21 Days |
Elimination of
breeding sources. |
Residual and space
sprays and trapping. |
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Flesh Fly |
3/8'' to 9/16'' in
length, dull grayish- black in color with three dark stripes on the
thorax. |
Decayed flesh and
spoiling meat, manure, wounds in living animals and sometimes garbage. |
8-21 Days |
Sanitation and
destruction of breeding sites. |
Residual and space
sprays and trapping. |
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Green Bottle Fly |
About 1/2'' in length
with shiny metallic blue-green abdomen and thorax. |
Dead animal
carcasses; decomposing meat and fish; garbage and sometimes animal
excrement |
9-21 Days |
Sanitation and
destruction of breeding sites; tight fitting garbage containers and
screens on windows & doors. |
Larvicides, residual
and space sprays; baits and trapping. |
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Blue Bottle Fly |
About 1/2'' in length
with a dull thorax and shiny blue abdomen. |
Dead animal
carcasses; decomposing meat and fish; over-ripe fruit, decaying vegetable
matter and sores on living humans. |
15-20 Days |
Sanitation and
destruction of breeding sites; tight fitting garbage containers and
screens on windows and doors. |
Larvicides, residual
and space sprays; baits and trapping. |
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Bronze Bottle Fly |
About 1/2'' in length
with a bronze abdomen and thorax. |
Dead animal
carcasses; decomposing meat and fish; garbage, and sometimes animal
excrement. |
9-10 Days |
Sanitation and
destruction of breeding sites; tight fitting garbage containers. |
Larvicides, residual
and space sprays; baits and trapping. |
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