A housefly is the common name for insects of the order Diptera family, or common fly. Most common flies are either harmful for they carry disease transmitting pathogens or just being a nuisance due to their voracious habits of biting or bloodsucking. The common fly, which is scientifically referred to as Musca domestica, is generally a very small, two-winged and grey with dark stripes fly. It’s commonly found in virtually all human habitations. Common fly or mostly known as a Housefly are major pests affecting man. After walking on excrement, it may carry and transmit pathogens that not only cause typhoid, cholera, dysentery, leprosy, poliomyelitis, and infectious hepatitis, but also may carry eggs of parasitic worms such as hookworms and roundworms. It’s been found that small round worms carried by common flies can cause permanent blindness on people. Common Flies are also known to spread diseases and parasites to animals. For instance the infection of an animal caused by a house fly larvae (maggots) is referred to as Myiasis. This infection is common in all livestock such as cattle, sheep, and goats. Myiasis has also been reported in human beings particularly when certain species of flies are attracted to ulcerated or injured skin. When they lay eggs on the ulcerated skin; the eggs hatches and the larvae then proceeds to burrow into the skin. Depending on the type of fly, the larvae may remain in the skin and hence causes boil-like lesions, the larvae may even move extensively through the blood streams and eventually to the entire body. This may lead to damage of various vital body organs. When human ingest food contaminated with common fly larvae it may lead to what is referred to as Intestinal myiasis. It’s been found that an adult female common fly lays several hundred eggs in decaying matter such as vegetable, manure, compost, and garbage. The larvae, or maggots, mature in as little as a week. With less than five days in the pupae stage. The pupae are deeply buried in dark brown soil or heaps of waste and decaying matter. More than six generations may hatch in a single summer, this results in hutching of a vast number of houseflies. Extensive use of insecticides to control common flies has made many housefly species to develop resistance to these chemicals that formerly killed them. Chemical insecticides though being harmful to the environment; they pose a threat to human beings and animals. Environmental management suggests good sanitation, proper waste management and safe, effective, non-chemical fly trap, such as the Rid-Max Fly Trap, have been propagated to be the best methods of common fly management and control. Remember that when searching for food, common flies normally follow each other. They are said to watch each other constantly; when one fly finds food, all others gathers to feast. This is the reason behind how big the success of the Rid-Max Fly Trap. This non chemical trap traps the flies alive and as they buzz they attract other flies in the trap. The buzzing flies release a natural chemical called the pheromones which act as a bait to other unwitting insects to the trap.
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