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flies eat bacteria and crumbs. they don't do much to hurt the environment.

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no but they are important to Spiders lives and many other bugs and things spiders help get rid of lots of things that humans don't need but spiders do

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Maggots are the larval stage of flies. Maggots themselves may not be necessary, but the animals they grow into are. Flies are a food source for countless other animals.

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They are consumers of rubbish.

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