House Fly, Cluster Fly,& Blow Flies

The common house fly, is a pest throughout the world. Each adult female begins laying eggs a few days after hatching, laying a total of five to six batches of 75 to 100 small, white oval eggs. In warm weather these hatch in 12 to 24 hours into cream-colored larvae which burrow into the food material on which they hatched… House fly eggs are laid in almost any warm moist material which will furnish suitable food for the growing larvae. Animal manure, human excrement, garbage, decaying vegetable material and ground contaminated with such organic matter are suitable materials. In addition to being a nuisance, flies contaminate food with bacteria and other disease carrying organisms.

Small Fly Control

Fruit flies are common in, restaurants, supermarkets and wherever else food is allowed to ferment. Fruit flies lay their eggs near the surface of fermenting foods or other moist, organic materials. Upon emerging, the tiny larvae continue to feed near the surface of the fermenting mass.. The reproductive potential of fruit flies is enormous. Given the opportunity, they will lay about 500 eggs. The entire lifecycle from egg to adult can be completed in about a week.

Fruit flies are especially attracted to ripened fruits and vegetables in the kitchen, but they also will breed in drains, garbage disposals, empty bottles and cans, trash containers, mops and cleaning rags. All that is needed for development is a moist film of fermenting material. Fruit flies are primarily nuisance pests. However, they also have the potential to contaminate food with bacteria.