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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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