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Questions about fruit flies, horse flies, common house flies, or any other insect with a single pair of wings.

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When do flies lay eggs?

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Shortly after the mating season, most insects lay their eggs.

What do alderfly larva eat?

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Alderfly larvae eat smaller invertebrates and are in turn eaten by larger aquatic organisms, such as crayfish and fish.

Zoological name for housefly?

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The zoological name for the housefly is Musca domestica.

What is a cycle of butter fly?

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1. butterflies mate 2. female lays up to 20 eggs 3. female dies 4. eggs hatch 5. the tiny caterpillars eat the leafs 6. they grow 7. they turn into a cocoon 8. they hatch into a butterfly. replete)*

Do maggots live after being frozen?

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No, just the same if a person was frozen then thawed. Not possible for survival.

What is the Taxonomy of the common house fly?

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kingdom-tolitio vagisil

This first answer is so crude it should be taken off. People will believe it, and that's just wrong! This is the right answer:

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Insecta

Order: Diptera

Section: Schizophora

What flies on a string 4 letters?

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These fly in the sky and have five letters:

  • crane
  • eagle
  • egret
  • falcon
  • finch
  • goose
  • plane
  • raven
  • robin
  • stork
  • swift

What is the difference between green flies and black flies?

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You find black flys everywhere in england. Mostly in houses. Or by poo

What happens if you swallow a crane fly?

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nothing really, it might be an unpleasant experience but other then that, your fine.

What are scales and mites?

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Scales [Coccoidea family] are small insects that mainly survive by parasitically feeding off of a plant's life sustaining sap. But there are some scale insects that specialize in fungal food sources.

Mites [Acarina subclass, Arachnida class] are even smaller than scale insects. In fact, many of them only can be seen with a microscope or magnifying glass. They too are parasitic feeders. Depending upon the mite, the food source may be plant, mold or animal. Despite the generally destructive tendencies of mites, some actually are considered beneficial insects. Specifically, predatory mites eat other mites.

Aphids [Aphidoidea superfamily] tend to be green. But different aphids may be black, brown or pink. They're considered among the most destructive pests of edible plants. One reason lies in their tendency to make the plant sick with viruses at the same time that it takes away the sap that could help the plant fight the sickness. Many of them tend to focus on one kind of plant as a food source. But the green peach aphid [Myzus persicae] isn't picky, and basically considers any plant as a food source.

Fastest crawling insect?

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Tiger beetles are considered the fastest crawling insects on the planet. They can travel at approximately 8.2 inches per second.

Firefly and lightning beetle what reason they are glowing?

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Apparently . I live in hollywood fl and I've spotted 3 bugs with glowing eyes similar to fireflies. But doing futher research every picture I see their glowers are in their backs . I caught one of these alien looking bugs but let it go because my friend said they are fireflies. I beg to differ . I think they are somehow alien related creatures. Cj

What makes an aroplane to fly?

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In my own opinion, it's the combinations of three element; O2, vibrator & blade.

How do crane flies mate?

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I just watched two flies mate on my patio in Manhattan! They were doing it the same way we do it. The male (well I'm assuming it was the male) was behind the female... They performed this act for 4 hours! I was in shock!-No, the male puts his "finger" into the female and they dance with it in still.

What does a candle fly eat?

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candles

Do flies lay eggs when they land?

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Depends on what they're landing on. If they land on what they see as food, they secrete a solution from their mouth that helps break down their 'food'. if they find a dead body, they do what I just said or they will lay eggs if they're female.

Do flys eat honey?

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My experience is no.

I left for vacation last summer and when I returned my apartment was filled with flies. Remembering the old saying "You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar" I put out dishes of honey throughout my home hoping that some would land and become hopelessly entangled.

This was not the case. Though the place was absolutely swarming with flies, not a single one would ever go near the honey. I had to go and buy poisons to get rid of them.

Perhaps its instinctive as bees would almost certainly kill any would-be looting insects or perhaps its chemical and the honey contains something to warn other insects away. I don't know. I do know that they avoided it and landed on any and everything else including myself.

Another name for a blowfly?

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a flea

Do flies fly at night?

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Flies, like all invertebrates are cold blooded. They need the heat of the day and the sun to become active. At night a fly's metabolism slows. At night time they find small cracks and crevasse to hide in until the can warm up ready for the next day.

What eats DamselFly Nymphs?

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Damselfly nymphs are a younger version of the damselfly insect. However, things like fish, beetles, and even larger damselflies eat damselfly nymphs.

How wing beats does a fly get per second?

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200 to 2000 beats per second depending on the species.

Is it usual to have maggots in a compost bin?

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I love it when I get maggots in my compost bin because they speed the decomposition of the organic materials. Its important however to move the bin far enough away from the house that there are no objectionable odors. If you use a compost accelerant it will speed up the decomposition without attracting flies which lay their eggs and hatch as maggots. you can get compost alive for green matter from gardensalive.com which will do this.

How do you kill fly eggs?

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I would think that you could use any chemical such as bleach or something. You could probably use just a basic bug killer too. Or maybe even just some soap and water. Or you could squish them if you really wanted to.

Why are flies and maggots important to the environment?

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