House flies are very common in our environment and most of us are quite familiar with them. However, do you know that these house flies are available in several different varieties? These flies are buzzing, and create a disgusting nuisance around our homes and often they sit on our foods, bodies, and anywhere they feel like.
They may keep on coming back even if you try to hush them away as many times. But if you use fly screens on your doors and windows that are available from Premier Screens Ltd. after hushing them out, then you will not find them inside your premises.
Few facts about these houseflies
- Where they live?
Generally, these flies prefer to stay in edges and corners or find some thin objects for resting on. Often they are also found resting on walls, ceilings, and floors during the day. In the outdoors, they may rest on plants, fence wires, the ground, and garbage cans, etc. During the night, they usually rest near food sources and 5 – 15 feet off from the ground.
- What they normally eat?
They eat wide varieties of food, that includes human and foods, and carcasses, excrement, and garbage.
- Reproduction
These house flies lay their eggs in almost any moist, warm, material that can supply them suitable food for their larvae. The female flies may lay eggs in a total of 5 to 6 batches of almost 75 to 100 eggs. During warm weather, eggs can hatch in 12 – 24 hours.
- Life span
Generally, the life span of a house fly is less than 1 month.
- Disease
These house flies are considered to be major carriers of various diseases. Researchers found that they can transfer more than 100 pathogens that result into ailments like:
- Typhoid
- Tuberculosis
- Dysentery
- Cholera
Why these houseflies are so harmful to humans?
Houseflies are harmful not because they can create a nuisance or major inconvenience but they are really very harmful to us.
As you know they generally feed only on filthy matters. They can carry dangerous micro organism on their body and legs. When they hover over our foods, sit on them or our body, they will transfer all these harmful organisms into our bodies.
Some of the most common microorganisms that they transmit are:
- Campylobacter
- Chlamydia
- Enterococcus
- Escherichia
- Salmonella
- Shigella
All these are known for causing serious illnesses in we humans like:
- Anthrax
- Diarrhea
- Dysentery
- Food poisoning
- Ophthalmia
- Parasitic worms.
- Shigellosis
- Tuberculosis
- Typhoid fever
Getting Rid of Houseflies
If you want to get rid of then you must eliminate:
- Animal dung
- Food waste
- Garbage
- Open sewage
There are many pesticides also are available to get rid of these houseflies but usually, they may not be too safe to use in houses having children and pets.Various fly screens for doors available in the market are also quite an effective technique to manage these houseflies. If you have sufficient numbers of such flyscreens placed on various doors and windows of every room then these flies will not get any entry into the house.
