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Bluebottle Blow Fly, Calliphor erythrocephala
Blow flies and bottle flies are important scavengers in nature as they are one of the first insects to reach a dead animal. These flies are part of the decomposition process that recycles nutrients back into the soil. The maggots of these flies may be used by forensic entomologists to place the time of death in murder cases.
They also breed in garbage containers, dumpsters, and decaying vegetative matter (e.g., compost piles). These flies are extremely common and can be found one to a few at a time in homes or businesses during the warm summer months.
They are attracted to buildings by food odors and also warm/cool air currents emitting through cracks around doors and windows or through doors propped open for ventilation purposes. The sudden appearance of dozens of blow flies or bottle flies within a building signals a potential dead rodent, bird, or other animal in the wall, ceiling, attic, or crawl space.
Cluster Fly, Diptera: Calliphoridae, Pollenia rudis
INTERESTING FACTS: These flies appear during late autumn, winter, and early spring at windows and in rooms not frequently used.
When crushed, they leave a greasy spot on upholstery, carpets, and wood surfaces.
HABITAT: Adult flies of the last generation of the year become numerous during the latter days of September to mid-October. As cold weather progresses, adults seek protected places to spend the winter. In many cases, this is within walls, attics, storage rooms, and basements of houses.
Screens offer no protection since these flies prefer to crawl in through small openings elsewhere around the building. For this reason they are extremely difficult to keep out of houses. Isolated houses in the country are especially prone to invasion, since they offer the only warm shelter for miles around.
LIFE CYCLE: The female lays eggs in the soil near the burrows of earthworms. The tiny maggots that hatch from the eggs seek out earthworms to feed upon. The maggots of cluster flies have never been reared on any other food but living earthworms. When full grown, the parasitic maggot leaves the body of the host and enters the soil. There are about four generations a year.
Face Fly, Musca autumnalis
This fly is very closely related to the house fly and, in fact, an entomologist is needed to distinguish between the two species. If “house flies” are suddenly appearing inside a building during the fall, winter, or spring, then face flies are likely involved. The face flies status as a pest is similar to that of the cluster fly.
These flies have discovered that heated buildings are ideal for surviving the cold of winter, and the face fly is one such species. As the weather cools in late summer and early fall, the sun warms the southern and western walls of buildings. The warmth attracts these insects to buildings where they crawl inside cracks and stay there for the winter.
This would be fine, but during warm winter days, some flies “wake up” and end up on the inside of the building. Like house flies, face flies breed primarily in fresh animal manure and so are more common in buildings in rural areas near farms.
Fruit Flies, Drosophila melanogaster
The drosophila egg is about half a millimeter long. It takes about one day after fertilisation for the embryo to develop and hatch into a worm-like larva. The larva eats and grows continuously, molting one day, two days, and four days after hatching (first, second and third instars). After two days as a third instar larva, it molts one more time to form an immobile pupa.
Over the next four days, the body is completely remodeled to give the adult winged form, which then hatches from the pupal case and is fertile within about 12 hours. (timing is for 25°C; at 18°, development takes twice as long.)
Greenfly
Symptoms: Infestations of green, pink, cream or brown insects around the softest parts of the plant, usually the tips of shoots and the undersides of young leaves
Housefly, Musca domestica
Extremely common and widespread visitor to houses throughout Britain and Ireland, the common housefly has red eyes and mostly dark body except orange patches on the abdomen. House flies will contaminate food which they repeatedly salivate on, ingest and regurgitate in order to pre-digest.
Normally around 6-8mm long and have 4 dark stripes along the thorax a typical fly can lay between 500-900 eggs during it's adult life. With an erratic flight pattern and distinctive wing veins the fly is associated with several diseases including typhoid and dysentery creating fly spots, which occur when the insect feeds or defecates, leading to finished produce being rejected.
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45 Watt (3x15W Bulbs) high power electric fly killer unit. A high end unit in stainless-steel. Comes with manufactures 5 year guarantee! Can be wall mounted or suspended and servicing the machine is exceptionally easy. All metal unit, British made.
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This is a fantastic package to rid you of your fly problem with the greatest ease possible.
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Fogging kills the pests in the room, and the traps maintain that they do not return and cause a nuisance again.
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The Omega standoff system is a high quality customized built fly screen. Mainly used as a top or side opening rigid framed window flyscreen. Any size up to 800mm by 800mm catered for.
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Rapid knockdown aerosol with good residual action.CIK is a combination of natural and synthetic active ingredients. Contains natural pyrethrins 0.2%, Cypermethrin 0.11%
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Effective against biting insects including midges, mosquitoes, wasps, flies and fleas. Use as a repellent, a space spray or a surface spray.
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Dusting Powder with long residual action, 100g puffer pack. Residex P 0.5% Dusting Powder, will control, a broad spectrum of insects.
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Oa2ki is a new organic insect control agent based entirely upon concentrated natural plant extracts of food grade quality.
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