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Musca domestica (housefly)
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Musca domestica (Housefly) feeding on sweetmelon [photo Hamish Robertson ©] |
Houseflies breed in manure, garbage and rotting vegetable matter. The female lays four
to five batches of 100-120 eggs each. Eggs hatch within 24 hours and the larvae take about
five days to develop. As in all higher flies, to pupate the larval skin first hardens to
form a puparium and then the pupa forms within that. The adult fly emerges from the pupa
after about five days.
References
Text and photo by Hamish Robertson |
