Life cycle of house fly
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Life Cycle of House Flies
What is the life cycle of a house fly?
Egg: The life cycle of a house fly begins in the egg stage.
Maggot: Fly eggs turn into larvae, also known as maggots.
Fly pupae: Maggots will then pupate, which is similar to a butterfly cocoon.
Full grown house fly: Pupae will then become a fully grown house fly.
Do flies lay eggs?
A female house fly is capable of laying up to 150 eggs in a batch. Over a period of a few days, she will produce five or six batches of eggs.
How do flies reproduce?
Within two to three days after being born from a pupae, female house flies are capable of reproduction. Flies use a process called oviposition for reproduction.
Where do flies lay eggs?
Female house flies favor damp, dark surfaces such as compost, manure and other decomposing organic material for egg laying.
What do fly eggs look like?
House fly eggs resemble individual grains of rice.
What is a fly pupae?
Fly pupae are similar in fun
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How Houseflies Work
The housefly life cycle closely mirrors that of most insects: a basic cycle that begins with an egg, then develops through a larva phase, a pupa phase, and finally, into an adult. During a warm summer -- optimal conditions for a housefly -- the cycle, from fertilized egg to adult, spans a mere seven to 10 days.
After a male housefly chases down and fertilizes a female counterpart, she's ready to lay her eggs. Houseflies are solitary creatures. Like the rest of the insect world, males and females do not stick together after mating and, unlike nesting insects, females do not care for or protect eggs. Females simply leave the eggs where they will be safe from predators and have plenty to eat upon hatching.
The female housefly deposits her eggs in the crevices and corners of the same kinds of decaying organic matter adults feed on. Within a day, the first larvae begin to emerge from the eggs. Also known as maggots, these worm-like creatures are little more than
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Housefly
Species of insect
Not to be confused with horse-fly.
The housefly (Musca domestica) is a fly of the suborder Cyclorrhapha. It possibly originated in the Middle East, and spread around the world as a commensal of humans. Adults are gray to black, with four dark, longitudinal lines on the thorax, slightly hairy bodies, and a single pair of membranous wings. They have red compound eyes, set farther apart in the slightly larger kvinnlig.
The kvinnlig housefly usually mates only once and stores the sperm for later use. It lays batches of about 100 eggs on decaying organic matter such as food waste, carrion, or feces. These soon hatch into legless vit larvae, known as maggots. After two to fem days of development, these metamorphose into reddish-brown pupae, about 8 millimetres (3⁄8 inch) long. Adult flies normally live for two to fyra weeks, but can hibernate during the winter. The adults feed on a variety of liquid or semi-liquid substances, as well as solid m