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Fly – Dump<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Common names<\/strong>: Black Dump Fly, Dump Fly<\/p>\n

Scientific name<\/strong>: Order Diptera, family Muscidae, Hydrotaea aenescens<\/em><\/p>\n

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Size<\/strong>: Same size as the common house fly, 1\/8″ to 1\/4″.<\/p>\n

Identification<\/strong>: The adult fly is a shiny black fly similar to the housefly. These beneficial flies do not bother animals or people. They have little movement or flight, unlike house flies.<\/p>\n

Biology and life cycle<\/strong>: Females lay an average of 170 eggs over a seven- to ten-day period. Eggs hatch in eighteen to twenty-four hours. There are three larval stages and a pupal stage, which changes into an adult fly. Adults mate after about five days; two days later, the females start laying eggs. The egg-to-adult period is about fourteen days or shorter.<\/p>\n

Habitat<\/strong>: They like dark locations and stay close to the ground. Love manure pits.<\/p>\n

Feeding habits<\/strong>: The larvae (or maggots) are predators of the larvae of house flies and other flies.<\/p>\n

Economic importance<\/strong>: Control of house flies resulting from animal manures.<\/p>\n

Natural control<\/strong>: None needed.<\/p>\n

Organic control<\/strong>: None needed.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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