Quiz Filth-Breeding Flies & What You Need To Know Indiana

All filth flies have an egg, larva (maggot), pupa, and adult stage in their life cycle. The adult fly has 2 wings (the hind pair is reduced to a knobbed balancing organ).   True or False

Filth flies are usually scavengers in nature and many are capable of transmitting diseases to man.  True or False

The house fly, Musca domestica is one of the most common of all insects. It is worldwide in distribution and is a pest in homes, barns, poultry houses, food processing plants, dairies, and recreation areas.

House fly eggs are laid in almost any type of warm organic material.  True or False

The stable fly is a blood-sucking fly which is of considerable importance to people, pets, agricultural animals.  True or False

Blow flies and bottle flies can breed on dead rodents and birds in attics or wall voids of houses. They usually breed in meat scraps, animal excrement, and decaying animal matter around houses.  True or False

Flesh flies are a scavenger fly species that usually feeds on carrion or meat scraps in garbage. They are medium- to large-sized flies and usually have 3 dark thoracic stripes and mottled abdomens. Many of the common species have a red tip on the abdomen.  True or False

 Flesh flies prefer breeding media  around residences of decayed flesh, spoiling meat, and manure. Usually garbage can meat scraps and dog food left outside are abundant sources of flesh fly breeding material.  True or False

Blow flies usually lay eggs on dead animals or decaying meat. Garbage cans have been known to produce 30,000 blow flies in one week. The life cycle usually lasts 9-21 days from egg to adult.  True or False

Filter flies (drain flies), belong to the family of flies called moth flies. Filter flies usually feed on slime in trickling filters of sewage treatment plants or in drains of sinks.  True or False

House flies breeding is compounded by fermenting vegetation such as grass clippings and garbage. True or False

Adult stable flies can fly up to 100 miles from their breeding sites. True or False

Stable flies breed in three principal types of material: 

* Green vegetation (e.g. green chop, silage, crop residues, and cut grass), 

* Seaweed and Bay grass deposits and 

* Animal manure. 

True or False

 Flesh flies retain their eggs within the body of the female until they are ready to hatch. True or False

Flesh flies preferred breeding media around residences are; decayed flesh, spoiling meat, and manure.   True or False

Blow flies and bottle flies usually have a metallic red or pink color or both, on the thorax and abdomen.    True or False

Blow flies usually lay eggs on dead animals or decaying meat. Garbage cans have been known to produce 30,000 blow flies in one week. The life cycle usually lasts 9-21 days from egg to adult.   True or False

Filter flies (drain flies), belong to the family of flies called moth flies. Filter flies usually feed on slime in trickling filters of sewage treatment plants or in drains of sinks.  True or False

Soldier flies behave like a wasp and are similar in appearance to a carpenter bee.  True or False

Hump-backed flies breed in decaying vegetation, animal debris, garbage and in ant and termite nests.    True or False