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Kill house flies with Do It Yourself Pest Control ProductsHouse Flies are 1/8”-1/4” long and gray with 4 black lengthwise stripes on the thorax. The abdomen is gray or yellowish with dark midline and irregular dark markings on the sides. Eyes are compound and reddish. Habitats include near horse manure, garbage, feces, and exposed food. Their range is worldwide except for Antarctica and a few remote islands. Adults suck liquids containing sweet or decaying substances. Larva feeds on moist food rich in organic matter. The female lays 5 to 6 batches of 75-120 oval white eggs on moist manure or garbage. Eggs hatch in 10-24 hours. Larvae reach full size in about 5 days emerging as adults about 5 days later. Lifespan for males is about 15 days, while females live up to 26 if they have access to milk, sugar, and water. Ninety-eight percent or more of flies caught in houses are House Flies. Because they can transmit typhoid fever, cholera, dysentery, pinworms, hookworms, and some tapeworms, House Flies are regarded as a greater threat to human health than most other insects.

Kill face flies with Do It Yourself Pest Control Products

The larger and darker Face Fly resembles the House Fly but settles on cow manure rather than horse manure. It creeps into the nostrils and eyes of cattle and into horse fly wounds.


Use Do It Yourself Pest Control Products to get rid of black fliesBlack Flies are small, rather squat, grayish or blackish flies with large, rounded wings and a distinctively humpbacked shape. They are 1/16”-1/4” long. Adults are most common in spring and early summer. The females bite and in forested regions can be extremely annoying. The larvae, to ¼” long, are found in streams with high oxygen content. They attach themselves to rocks by means of a suction disk at the end of the abdomen. Pupae are shaped like cornucopias and, like the larvae, are attached firmly to rocks. North American black flies do not transmit any serious diseases, but in tropical areas some species carry a roundworm parasite that can cause blindness in people. They range from Canada south to Georgia, west to California and Mexico, and north to Alaska. They hang near running water in forest, mountains, and tundra. They feed on nectar. Female sucks blood from birds and mammals. Larva is filter feeder, eating particles such as diatoms and bacteria. Biting adults are the bane of the North Country and mountain resorts, particularly early spring. Some species transmit waterfowl malaria, which accounts for up to half of the deaths of ducks, geese, swans, and turkeys.

Get rid of deer flies with Do It Yourself Pest Control ProductsDeer Flies are 3/8”-5/8” long with a somewhat flattened body and head smaller than that of the horse fly. They are black with yellow-green markings on the thorax and most of the abdomen. Antennae are cylindrical, and its eyes are bright green or gold with zigzag or other patterns. Hind tibiae have 2 spurs at the tip. Wings have distinctive brownish-black pattern. The larva is yellowish white or greenish with brown rings. They live throughout North America in deciduous and mixed forests, meadows, roadsides, and suburbs near water. The male drinks plant juices, and the female sucks blood from mammals. Larvae feeds on small aquatic insects. Shiny black eggs are laid in clusters on leaves of emergent plants just above water. Fully grown larvae pupate in mud at the edge of water. Adults emerge between May and August. A deer fly circles over its intended victim before settling, then immediately bites. Some transmit bacteria that causes tularemia in rabbits, hares, and occasionally people. The most common species, the Callidus Deer Fly, has black on its thorax and V-shaped black marks on abdominal segments 2, 3, and 4. It pesters animals and people during June and July, from Maine to Florida, west to Texas, north to British Columbia.

Use Do It Yourself Pest Control Products to control stable fliesStable Flies are ¼”-3/8” long and gray with 4 indistinct darker stripes down the top of the thorax. Its mouthparts are adapted for piercing, and are held projecting forward. Eyes are reddish, male’s almost meeting above. The female’s are wider apart. The abdomen is mottled with black spots on gray background. Legs are black, and the wings clear with brown veins. Stable flies can be found worldwide along coasts, in pastures and barnyards and near garbage dumps. Adults feed on nectar and suck blood of large animals. Larva eats fermenting vegetation, but not manure or garbage. The female stable fly attaches ivory-colored eggs to moist surface; eggs hatch in 1-3 days. Larvae develop in 15-30 days and over winter as larvae or as pupae. In summer, pupal stages may last only 6-7 days. Several generations hatch each year. Adults bite fiercely, often on ankles, or low on the legs of domestic livestock. They are not known to transmit diseases among people, but carry infectious anemia to horses.

Use Do It Yourself Pest Control Products to control Crane FliesCrane Flies can be recognized by their long legs, which break off easily.These 3/8”-2 1/2” long gray or brown flies resemble giant mosquitoes. They have 3 simple eyes and a V-shaped groove on the top of the thorax. Unlike mosquitoes, crane flies do not have a long proboscis and cannot bite. They differ from phantom crane flies mostly in wing venation. Adults are very common in a wide variety of habitats and frequently enter houses. The larvae called leatherjackets because of their tough skin, live in shallow water or moist soil and feed mainly on decaying plant matter, fungi, roots, leaves of emergent and terrestrial plants, and, less often, animal matter. Adult crane flies do not eat. Their range is worldwide.

Control Blow Flies with Do It Yourself Pest Control ProductsBlow Flies are 1/4"-5/8” long and have a large, lobe-shaped calypter at the base of each wing. They resemble flies in four other families, but can be distinguished by minute anatomical features. Unlike muscid and anthomyiid flies, they have a row of stout bristles on each side of the thorax just above the base of the hind leg and another row of bristles just under the base of the wing. Muscid and anthomyiid flies rarely have both sets of these bristles. Unlike tachinid flies, which have these bristles, blow flies lack a postscutellum. They are very similar to flesh flies but have 2 or 3 rather than 4 bristles on top of the thorax, and a feathery bristle-like tip of the antenna, called the arista. They are also frequently metallic green or blue, while flesh flies are black. Most blow flies breed in carrion or other decaying matter, and often gather in large numbers at a carcass. A few species are bloodsuckers or have larvae that live as internal parasites of mammals.

Do It Yourself Pest Control to get rid of green bottle fliesGreen Bottle Flies are larger than house flies and stout. 3/8”-1/2” long, it is brilliant metallic blue-green or golden with black markings. The thorax has 3 cross-grooves and black bristle-like hair. Antennae and legs are black. The wings are clear with light brown veins. They range from Southern California to Mexico and live in dead fish and other dead animals, in fresh unprotected wounds, and in manure and garbage containing animal matter. The green bottle fly is not attracted to the smell of fresh meat as is the blue bottle fly, and is less likely to enter homes. It is often found near slaughterhouses and garbage cans.

Do It Yourself Pest Control to control Blue Bottle FliesBlue Bottle Flies are ½” long with gray head and large red eyes. It has black sides and a reddish beard. The thorax is dark gray and the abdomen is metallic blue. The legs are dark gray to black and bristly. Wings are clear. They range from Greenland south along the Atlantic Coast to Virginia, southwest to Mexico, and north to Alaska and prefer to hang out in pastures and barnyards, near decaying meat, exposed flesh wounds, and dung. The female feeds on wounds and rotting meat. Larvae eats juice from decaying flesh. Larvae require ninety percent humidity to hatch; if enough moisture is present, hatching occurs almost immediately. Larvae grow rapidly and often crawl many feet to pupate in drier places, either in soil or in crevices of buildings. Adults emerge in 2-3 weeks. Many generations per year. Females are attracted to meat and often enter open houses. They buzz loudly when they can’t find an exit. When feeding in wounds, larvae keep flesh essentially sterile but retard healing. On live animals the infestation is known as myiasis.

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