According to Orkin, houseflies undergo four stages: egg, larva, pupa and adult. A female housefly will lay its eggs near a food source. This includes animal feces, rotting food, trash or any ...

The biotopes of housefly larvæ consist of a variety of materials which by themselves appear nutritionally inadequate, but which have dense microbial floras (for example, animal excrements).

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New book A Housefly Buzzes In The Key Of F, written by Simon Nicholls, comes out of Radio 4 comedy show Nature Table. It delivers fascinating facts on all things flora and fauna in an amusing away.