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Yellow swarming fly

…ch season can offer many generations of new yellow swarming flies, but the fly only overwinters as an adult fly and not as a larva. During the spring months, the air can swarm by small yellow swarming fly that are on their way out of their wintering grounds and are in search of food. The adult flies’ feeds, among other things, on the nectar that comes from flowers. However, the spring swarms are not at the same height as the swarms that occur in t…

Housefly

…ts senses and it search for food. It is important to notice, that the housefly can fly relatively far, compared to its small size. The fly does not chew the food, but spits on the food they want to eat and then slurps a combination of saliva and half-digested food. The fly has enormous reproductive potential. An adult female lay between 100-120 eggs divided in 1-6 times. The development from egg to adult takes 1-2 weeks during the summer. Damage T…

Common cluster fly

…at you typically see. You can also tell the difference between the cluster fly and the housefly by the fact that the wings of the cluster fly almost completely cover each other when standing still, almost like when a human is sitting with its legs crossed. Biology and behavior Like all other flies, the first life stage of the cluster fly is like eggs, then larva and finally adult fly. Adult cluster flies lay their eggs individually in small cracks…

Grey flesh fly

…Flesh fly ( Latin: Sarcophaga carnaria) This large grey fly is occasionally seen indoors. Like the true blowflies it lays on dead animals, so all meats and meat products must be kept out of its reach. The eggs hatch just before they are laid so the flesh fly can be said to produce live young….

The grey flesh fly

…Latin: Sarcophaga carnaria. The grey fleshfly The grey fleshfly 11-13 mm long, gray striped chest and typically chequered abdomen. Just as the blowfly, the female grey flesh fly also seeks out dead animals to lays her eggs in. Grey flesh fly eggs hatch as soon as they are placed so in principle they give birth to live offspring….

Louse flies

…y a nuisance to wild animals. Appearance Although louse flies is a type of fly, it is very similar in appearance to louse. A louse fly has a flattened body instead of a spherical or egg-shaped body that most flies have. Its skin is also leathery instead of the familiar, metallic-shiny surface of many flies. The louse fly has strong legs. Unfortunately, there are several species of louse flies, such as the lizard fly, also called Crataerina pallida…

Banana flies

…asses of jam are just some of the many temptations that attract the banana fly. The banana fly does not just eat these goods. The female also lays her small whitish eggs in these surroundings. The female can lay 25 eggs in one day, just as she can lay 200 eggs in total in her lifetime. The female’s eggs take about a day to hatch. And out of the eggs come the small larvae that search down into their edible surroundings. The larvae then undergo thei…

Index

…lour mite Flour moth, mediterranean Fly, common house Fly, fruit Fly, grey flesh Fly, lesser house Fly, vinegar Forage mite Forest cockroach Forficula auricularia Frischii, Dermestes Fruit flies Furniture beetles Furniture mite Fur, Ptinus German cockroach Gibbium psylloides Glycyphagus destructor Glycyphagus domesticus Golden spider beetle Grain beetles Grain beetle, flat Grain beetle, merchant Grain beetle, saw-toothed Grain beetle, rust-red Gra…

The stable fly

…its close relative the stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans. Fig. 41. The house fly (left) and the stable fly (right). (Kemper) It is mostly common in the fall, but can also be a nuisance during spring and summer. A stable fly looks like an ordinary house fly, but is characterized by its hard, pointy proboscis which clearly sticks out of the front of the head – like a stick. When sitting on a wall, you can recognize the black flies because their wings…

The lesser house fly

…laris. Lesser house fly Lesser house fly, adult and larva The lesser house fly is the typical house fly. It is 5 -7 mm. The males of this species can be seen in a tireless bouncing dance around lamps or other things hanging down from the ceiling. The lesser house fly lays its eggs one by one in very moist, decaying substances, for example, in moist manure or sink drains. The larvae do not look like ordinary fly larvae. They are flat with a rough,…

The common house fly

…n taste through the taste organs that sit on the feet and probosces. House fly, adult and larva Experiments with labelled flies have shown that they can easily fly several kilometres. The flies that hatch where there is plenty manure and feed will mostly stay put. On the other hand, it is a fact that neighbours can get their share of the fly production. Stables and middens, which are the source of houseflies, smell and may obviously annoy neighbou…

Horse-fly bites

…le skin. Horse flies only bite in daylight. The risk of getting bitten is greatest near marshes and river valleys. They often stray into cars and houses, which can then act as traps. They do not bite inside; however, they just sit by the windows and wait to get out into the light again. Horse fly bite hurts , and it is quite bloody. The horse-fly pumps rather large amounts of saliva into the wound. For some people, this results in severe allergic…

Fly bug

…and, are glossy brownish or dull black. They have well developed wings and fly well. The rostrum or proboscis is very short and powerful and when not in use it is folded back beneath the body. The female lays up to about 200 very large, brown eggs which are deposited singly and at random. Development is slow and at ordinary room temperature may take a year from the hatching of the egg to the adult insect. Fly bugs are predators that suck the body…

Bathroom fly

(Latin: Psychoda alternata) Bathroom fly – Moth fly These are small, dark flies which can some- times be seen on the walls and in the basins in bathrooms and lavatories. They belong to a group known generally as owl midges. Their wings are hairy and relatively large, but they do not fly particularly well. They move by a kind of hopping flight, or simply walk around. The eggs are laid in the slime that accumulates in water-traps and outlets of bas…

Horse-flies

…e a dozen different horse-fly species of the family Tabanidae. The biggest fly in Denmark is a horse-fly, namely the 3 cm long pale giant horse-fly, Tabanus bovinus. However, it is mainly the smaller species which can become so numerous that they become troublesome: deer flies of the genus Chrysops, which has yellow markings on the abdomen and brown-spotted wings and the common horse fly, Haematopota pluvialis, which is one centimeter long and cha…

Black fly bites

…ver, they bite humans if more suitable hosts are not present. When a black fly is about to suck blood, it is not easy to chase away. However, it is easy to slap. Its mouth parts are short. It scrapes a small hole in the skin and drinks the blood from the wound. Black flies bite where the skin is thin, often around the eyes and ears. The bites hurt, and some people experience itching and swelling that can last for several days. If you have been bit…

Cheese fly

Latin: Piophila casei Cheese fly This fly lays its eggs not only on cheese but also on other milk products, on meat as well as offal and faeces. The larvae, known as cheese skippers, have a fantastic ability to hop. They do this by bending themselves in the middle so that they can grasp the hind part of the body with the mouth- hooks. They then suddenly release their hold and the body is hurled into the air. At one time they were something of a s…

Bats

…den can attract protected animal species, so you can experience nature up close. In cases where the bats are an excessively big nuisance, at certain times of the year you can use special exclusion systems that are set up where the bats are located. That way, the bats can fly out of their hiding place, but not fly in again. They are thus forced to find a new place. The period during which this systems can be used is from late August to early Septem…

Cluster fly

(Latin: Pollenia rudis) Cluster fly In many houses large, greyish flies may appear during the winter. In some places they may occur in their thousands, and constitute an absolute plague as they buzz around lamps and fall into the tea cups, and so on. These are the so-called cluster flies, which are actually related to the blowflies. They are not iridescent like the ordinary blowflies, but are more like large houseflies, and can be recognized by t…

Crane fly

(Latin: Tipula paludosa) Cranefly Crane flies are among the animals which can cause panic in the bedroom when – attracted by the light – then fly in from outside and flap against the lampshades. Crane flies are merely large flies. They do not feed as adults, nor do they bite or sting. The female lays eggs in the ground, where the larvae feed on vegetation, sometimes causing damage by gnawing the roots of plants. Craneflies maiting on wall As ment…

Drone fly larva

…‘tail’ and look somewhat like tiny grey mice. From the pupa emerges a hoverfly, but unlike those •already mentioned, this species is remarkably like a honey bee (see p. 31). Some hoverfly larvae can live in carrion and these have given rise to the very old story that bees can come forth from the rotting carcase of an ox. The myth appears to have been old in the time of the ancient Egyptians where both the bull and the bee were sacred animals, and…

Small housefly

…ica, the small housefly is the most common in Danish homes. The small housefly is often seen flying around in circles around lamps. In the wild, they also fly like that, but around tree crowns. Small houseflies have a bouncy way of moving around, which can be annoying, but this means that the small housefly is hard to kill with a slap. Likewise, the small housefly is known for buzzing, like most other flies does. Although flies themselves do not p…

Vinegar fly

Vinegar fly Latin: Drosophila funebris These small yellowish-brown flies can sometimes be seen when a peeled banana or a cut tomato is left on the kitchen table. Vinegar flies frequently settle on bottles with drops of wine, milk or beer on the outside and they also visit jams, ketchup and vinegar. The female lays eggs directly in such substrates and these hatch after about a day into larvae which move down into the food. They are fully grown aft…

Housefly

…y irritating when they occur in swarms, settling on man and animals. House fly pupa Sometimes various tiny invertebrates can be found hanging on to the legs and body of a housefly. These may be mites of various kinds, which in this way are trans- ported from place to place by the m’bre mobile flies, or they may be false scorpions (p. 66). In all cases these are species which live in or on the manure where the flies develop, and they only release t…

Stable fly bites

Both sexes feed on blood, and the meals are a few days apart. Stable flies prefer cattle blood, so in the barn, they rarely attack humans. The stable flies that stray into living quarters, however, are likely to put their proboscis in humans. They mostly bite legs and it hurts, it almost feels like a needle prick. Stable flies only bite during the day, and usually there is no doubt regarding the diagnosis. Stable flies can be a nuisance for human…

Life cycle

…, they become active and are likely to bite humans. The bites can be mistaken for bedbug bites. How far do mosquitoes fly? If Aedes mosquitoes in forests bother you, you can assume that the puddle or ditch from which they have hatched is located within a few hundred meters. They rarely fly further away from their habitat. The Aedes mosquitoes that are hatched in beach meadows, on the other hand, often fly several kilometers away from their habitat…

Fruit flies

…In addition, make sure to keep the food, in which flies like to lay eggs, so they cannot get to them. It is easy to overlook how little space fruit flies need to develop. Returnable packaging in the form of barrels, jars and bottles holding slops can cause large fly populations and the same goes for poorly cleaned waste containers. The fruit fly pupae, which almost are cemented to surfaces, are difficult to remove and may give rise to complaints i…

Sheep ked

…ophagus ovinus. Common to them all, however, is that they all refer to the fly’s favorite host – namely the sheep. Appearance The body of the sheep ked is flattened and hairy. At the same time, it has an almost leathery skin and is also quite wingless. The chest of the sheep ked is brownish, while the broad hind body, on the other hand, has a grayish-brown color. An adult sheep ked grows between 4.5 and seven millimeters long. Biology and behavior…

Insect appearance

…hindwings are transformed into small clubs. Beetles use hindwingswings to fly. Butterflies use both pairs of wings as fly wings), I-IX, and X are the first, ninth and tenth parts of the abdomen. The softer parts of the exoskeleton, the epicuticle, is illustrated with dots. (Weber from Boas-Thomsen) . Unlike vertebrates, insects are built with their skeleton on the outside of the body. This is known as the exoskeleton. It is made up of a system of…

Index

…oat moth Golden spider beetle Gracilia minuta Grain weevil Great slug Grey fleshfly Grey worm Harvestmen Head louse Hercules ant Hide beetles Hippoboscidae Hirundo rustica Hofmannophila pseudospretella Honey bee Hornet House centipede House cricket House longhorn faeces House martin House mouse droppings House sparrow Housefly Hoverfly Human flea Hyle sinus fraxini Hvlobius abietis Hylotrupes bajulus Ichneumons lnachis io Indian meal moth lsoptera…