Flies

Blow flies are about 1/4 – 1” long with hair-like bristles and vary in color. Blow flies are often shiny, metallic, blue, green or black. They have large compound eyes, one set of wings and short antennae.Blow flies are attracted to recently deceased animals as well as animal feces where they lay their eggs. The…

Cluster flies are larger than house flies ranging from 3/8 to 1/2? long, black in color with short yellow hairs on their thorax, a checkered pattern on their abdomen and have large reddish-brown eyes.Adult female cluster flies lay their eggs in soil near the entrance to earthworm burrows. When the larvae hatch they seek out…

House flies are about 1/4” long, hairy and generally gray in color with broad dark stripes on their thorax (midsection). Most house flies have yellow coloring along their sides which helps to distinguish them from face flies. House flies have red compound eyes which are made up of 4,000 lenses which allows them a wide…