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The house-fly, Musca domestica Linn. : its structure, habits, development, relation to disease and control by C. Gordon Hewitt (1914) How to control house and stable flies without using pesticides. Agriculture Information Bulletin Number 673 Archived 28 November 2020 at the Wayback Machine; House fly on the UF/IFAS Featured Creatures Web site
Muscidae are a family of flies found in the superfamily Muscoidea.. Muscidae, some of which are commonly known as house flies or stable flies due to their synanthropy, are worldwide in distribution and contain almost 4,000 described species in over 100 genera.
They include many familiar insects such as house flies, blow flies, mosquitoes, gnats, black flies, midges and fruit flies. More than 150,000 have been formally described and the actual species diversity is much greater, with the flies from many parts of the world yet to be studied intensively.
Learn an entomologist's strategies for how to get rid of flies, and avoid house flies appearing in your home in the first place. Plus, DIY traps for flies.
Musca is a genus of flies. It includes Musca domestica (the housefly), as well as Musca autumnalis (the face fly or autumn housefly). It is part of the family Muscidae.
The lesser house fly (Fannia canicularis) , commonly known as little house fly, is a species of fly. It is somewhat smaller (3.5–6 mm (0.14–0.24 in)) than the common housefly and is best known for its habit of entering buildings and flying in jagged patterns in the middle of a room. It is slender, and the median vein in the wing is straight.
The face fly is similar to the closely related housefly but is slightly larger, averaging about 7–8 mm long and grey in colour with four dark stripes on the thorax, with a grey-black patterned abdomen. Like many true flies, in the males, the eyes almost touch when viewed from above. [1]
The house fly is found all over the world where humans live and so is the most widely distributed insect. [1]This is a list of common household pests – undesired animals that have a history of living, invading, causing damage, eating human foods, acting as disease vectors or causing other harms in human habitation.