Fly Facts
If you are going to become a Fly Assassin, it's important to learn about your enemy. Here is some useful information to know before you take on the task of killing flies.
The name of the common house fly is Musca Domestica.
Adults flies typically vary between 8 to 12 mm long.
The thorax of the house fly is gray. They have four longitudinal dark lines on their backs.
A fly's entire body is covered in hair projectiles.
The female fly is bigger than the male fly.
Flies have only one pair of wings. The pair in the rear is reduced to become small halteres. These halteres aid in their flight stability.
Every female fly can lay around 500 eggs and in several batches between 75 to 150.
Flies rely on temperatures that are warm. This allows them to develop faster.
The most common diet of a house fly is feces, open sores, sputum, and moist decaying organic matter (eg. spoiled food, eggs and flesh).
House flies only take in liquid food. They are required to spit out saliva on to solid food in order to predigest it, then they suck it in.
Flies also regurgitate partly digested matter to pass it through to the abdomen.
It is believed that house flies evolved from the beginning of the Cenozoic era (65 million years ago).
Flies are constantly depositing feces. This is due to their high intake of food. This is why the fly is such a common carrier of pathogens.
The house fly can travel several miles from it's initial breeding place.
Flies are active in the daytime only and rest at night in corners of the room, light fixtures, or ceiling hangings.
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