Types of Flies Commonly Seen?

• Musca domestica
• Musca sorbens
• Chrysomyia megacephala
• Fannia scalaris
• Muscina stabulans
• Lucilia sericata
• Phaenicia cuprina
• Stomoxys calcitrans
• Sarcophaga crassipalpis

 

The Dangers of Flies?

1. Food contamination
--- Flies generally breed on garbage, faeces, rotting matter, phlegm and other dirty places.
2. Disease transmission
--- As example, cholera, typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever, bacillary dysentery, diarrhoea, tuberculosis, anthrax, conjunctivitis, and etc.

Ways of Preventing?

1. Environmental management:
• Keep the environment clean, reduce the breeding of flies.
• Food or leftovers should not be disposed by putting it down the drain. It should be handled properly.
• Rubbish should be sealed and thrown as soon as possible.
• Do not spit or defecate everywhere.
• Be cautious when using organic fertilizer.
2. Physical ways of preventing:
• Use flypaper, fly ribbon, fly lights.
• Install screen door, window screen, air curtain or hidden walkway.
3. Chemical control methods:
• Larvae control
• Space spraying
• Residual spraying
• Chemical-soaked string
• Poisonous bait
4. Physiological control methods:
• Juvenoids
• Chitin Inhibitors
5. Biological control method:
• Use predators and parasitoids for controlling pests.

Do You Know Flies Transmit Bacteria by Regurgitating?

Regurgitate is a process of digesting. In this process, flies regurgitate saliva and digestive material onto its meal, and after that, they suck everything back up into its’ digestive tract.