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Common House Fly

Musca domestica

Photo by NayNay
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Field Notes

Description:

Looks like a common house fly, but this one seems to have some sort of growth on its head between it's eyes?

Habitat:

found buzzing around our backyard.

Reference Links:

Housefly

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Comments (2)
NayNay
oh really? Oooo that's interesting!!
monkey-mind and nana-puppet
the young housefly has to dig itself up, from the soil, it can inflate that thing and to push it´s way through
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PublishedJune 2, 2011

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