house fly order class mode of damage prevention

2. House Fly

3. Introduction
Scientific Name: Musca domestica
Family: Muscidae
Order: Diptera
Status: Most prevalent pest of highly medical
importance
Distribution: No house free from its population and
distributed world-wide. Alarming population in hot and
humid climate.

4. Description of Stages
Eggs: Whitish, elongated
and dosrsal surface has two
curved rib-like thickenings
Maggot: Tapering and
creamy white
Puparium: Seed-like and
barrel shaped and creamy
white

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Adult: 6-7 mm long and 13-15 mm across the wings.
Dull colour, a plumose rise on the antennae, pale grey
wings with a yellow base, greyish dorsum of the thorax
with 4 equally broad longitudinal lines and yellow
mark on side of the abdomen except posterior side
which is brownish-black.

6. Mode of damage
 Highly problemtic for human beings.
 Transmits large number of infectious diseases.
 Diarrhoea, dysentery, cholera, typhoid and other
fevers.
 Carries over 100 species of pathogens.

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 Larval population become infected in feces and adult
stage feeds on human food and results in polluting of
their bodies
 Also transmit diseases to mammals and birds of
agricultural importance.

8. Control
Non chemical control
 Proper sanitary conditions
 Screening of windows and doors
 Use of fly-swatters

9. Chemical Control
 Poison baits and sticky paper traps
 Malathion 2% and trichlorfon 0.5%
 Aerosol sprays containing pyrethroids
 Smear the surface of doors and windows with paint