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    Kingdom: Animalia.

    Phylum: Arthropoda.

    Class: Insecta.

    Order: Diptera.

    Family: Muscidae.

    Genus: Musca.

    Species: M. domestica
    • One of the most familiar and
    widely distributed of all
    insects.

    • Scientists have calculated


    that a pair of flies beginning
    reproduction in April may be
    progenitors, under
    optiminal conditions and if
    all were to live, of
    191,010,000,000,000,000,00
    0 flies by August.
    • Complete metamorphosis.

    • Female lay eggs.

    • Egg hatch to give larva (maggot).

    • Maggot transform into pupa.

    • Adult emerge from pupa.


    • White eggs, about 1.2 mm in length.

    • Each female fly can lay up to 500 eggs in several


    batches of about 75 to 150 eggs, each over a
    three to four day period
    •
    • The number of eggs produced is a function of
    female size, which is principally a result of larval
    nutrition.
    • The mature larva is 3 to 9 mm long, typical
    creamy whitish in color, cylindrical but
    tapering toward the head
    • The head contains one pair of dark hooks
    • Legless
    • The posterior spiracles are slightly raised and
    the spiracular openings are sinuous slits which
    are completely surrounded by an oval black
    border.
    • feed on and develop in the material (organic
    material) where the eggs were laid.
    • The larvae go through three instars
    • When the maggots are full-grown, they crawl
    up to 50 feet to a dried, cool place near
    breeding material and transform to the pupal
    stage.
    • The pupae are dark brown and 8 mm long.

    • The pupal stage is passed in a pupal case


    formed from the last larval skin which varies
    in color from yellow, red, brown, to black as
    the pupa ages
    • Adult house fly is 6 to 7 mm long.
    • The eyes are reddish.
    • It has an aristate antenna.
    • A house fly has a sponging mouthpart. The sponging
    mouthpart is modified into a flattened, rounded
    structure used for sapping and sponging liquid and
    semi-liquid food.
    • Thorax is gray, with four dark longitudinal dark lines
    on the back
    • There are three pairs of walking up-side down
    legs.

    • Their whole body is covered with hair.

    • houseflies have only one pair of wings; the


    hind pair is reduced to small halteres that aid
    in flight stability.
    The last segment of Musca leg
    • The females are slightly larger than the males.
    • Females have a much larger space between
    their red compound eyes.
    Housefly pupae killed by wasp larvae
    Housefly lapping up food from a plate
    • transmission of pathogens (viruses, bacteria, fungi,
    protozoa, and nematodes)
    • They are capable of carrying over 100 pathogens,
    such as typhoid, cholera, Salmonella, bacillary
    dysentery, tuberculosis, and parasitic worms. The
    flies in poorer and lower-hygienic areas usually carry
    more pathogens. Some strains have become immune
    to most common insecticides.

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