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House Fly or Flesh fly

Musca domestica or Sarcophagidae

Photo by Tiz
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Field Notes

Description:

The position in the first picture was a bit of a surprice. Lasted for app. 20 seconds, and after the reproduction session was over. They are not stuck in a web, they are standing on a web-nest from a type of moth.

Habitat:

Mixed meadow and woodland in the outskirts of a small town.

Notes:

100 pathogens associated with the house fly may cause disease in humans and animals; pathogens are picked up by flies from garbage, sewage and other sources of filth, and transferred to human and animal food on fly mouthparts, other contaminated body parts, or through their vomitus/feces (http://bugguide.net)

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (6)
injica
Well I'm not sure but here is the key http://www.techletter.com/Top%2010%20pests/housefly.html saying that the central band on the thorax shouldn't extend to the wings....I'd say is some sort of flesh fly
Sam10
Very interesting, thanks!
Tiz
They are vectors. Vector-borne transmission occurs when infectious agent carried by an insect or an animal (vector) to a susceptible host. A lot of different types of animals can be vectors of different virus, bacteria and parasites without getting injured/sick from it themselves.
Sam10
So do the house flies have a resistance to these pathogens?

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Scandinavian's Biodiversity

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PublishedJune 24, 2013

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