Description
- Family : les muscidés
- Ordre : Diptera (only one pair of wings)
- Size: Adults are 5 to 8 mm long.
- Color: The thorax and the ventral side is gray, with four lines longitudinal black
- Their eyes are red compounds.
- Females are slightly larger than males. Fly sucks his food with a trunk ending with two pads provided with pores.
- It feeds of waste organic matter.
- A female can lay 500 to 1,000 eggs in her lifetime.
- The eggs are white and measure 1.2 mm.
- The larvae (maggots) without legs out of their shell in 24 hours and it measures 3-8 mm.
- The larvae develop into pupae brown measuring 8 mm. It emerges from the pupa an adult fly.
- The lifetime of a fly, and 2 to 3 weeks.
- The ambient temperature affects the speed of development, at 18 degrees the whole cycle is 30 days, so that it is 30 degrees in 10 days.
Life cycle of the housefly in Axtell, 1986 North California State University
The fly can transmit diseases such as gastroenteritis. That is why it is necessary to apply a good health surveillance:
- Clean work surfaces.
- Inspect foods, especially fruits and vegetables that can carry larvae.
- Dispose of garbage as soon as possible in sealed bags.
- During the summer, keep in the freezer leftover meat until the day of harvest.
- Inspect the screens, windows and doors to prevent the intrusion of flies.
- It is possible to strengthen the control of flies in restaurants, buildings and plants. food, with the installation of ultraviolet light traps, and seasonal treatments.
Engineering extermination favors the use of environmentally friendly methods and biological products with low impact
