Flies

the proboscis and the tips of the leg

Barrels, drums, jars, pots, buckets, flower vases, plant-pots, tanks, discarded bottles, tins, tyres, water coolers and a lot more places where rain water is collected or is stored.

pretty small

Yes , they do take off backwards. It is a tactic through evolution developed by being attacked head on by predators. Cool trick: At a party, find a fly on a counter or wherever it has landed. Instead of trying to catch by the head, move your hand in slowly from the rear, then move fast and he`ll fly right into your hand.

Maggots are the larvae of flies, one of the growth stages between eggs and the adult fly.

Any organic matter, especially if rotten.
fruit fly eat fruit and Pomace fly eat blood.

Preying mantises, birds, spiders and other robber flies, to name a few.

There are not any really effective ways to get rid of mayflies. If you have standing water around your home, get rid of it. Mayflies like wet places so try to avoid having bird baths or pools around your home.

The genus Diptera includes files, mosquitos, gnats, midges, and no-see-ums. There are about 120,000 known species of true flies.

yes they do if you don't give them :)

An adult housefly can live up to a month but could also die within just a few days.

no, its an insect

The fruit fly has four stages to its life cycle. These are egg, larva, pupa, and adult. The egg will hatch into a larva after about twenty four hours being lain. The larva will moult twice in its life time. During these moulting periods the cuticle, mouth, hooks, and spiracles will be shed. Pupation will start after the second moult, when the larva will become hard and dark in colour. The puparium is where the metamorphosis takes place. Just before the adult fly emerges from the puparium, the pupa will darken in colour. About twenty four hours before the adult is ready to brake out of the pupa, the folded wings and pigments of the eyes can be seen through the puparium's shell. When the metamorphosis is complete, the adult will force its way out of the top of the puparium. To begin with, the fly looks light in colour with a long abdomen and unexpanded wings, but within a few short hours the fly becomes darker in colour, more rounded in the abdomen, and it will extend its wings. About forty eight hours after emerging from the puparium, female are able to start laying eggs. However, there are only twelve hours of the adult females life that it can be considered to be a virgin. A female fruit fly can store sperm after a single insemination and use it many times for reproduction. This enables the female fruit fly to be fertile for life and lay many eggs with out needing to mate every time.

Bot fly is any of various stout, two-winged flies, chiefly of the genera Gasterophilus and Oestrus, having larve that are parasitic on various animals, especially horses and sheep, and sometimes on humans.

Humans.

In general, bugs lay eggs on or near food. A grub hatches from the egg and eats the food. It grows and then spins a caccoon and then undergoes metamorphosis into the adult form of the bug. And the cycle repeats.

i believe its the drone fly

Family: Syrphidae

genus: eristalis

species: tenax

The same fly if allowed will bite numerous times. If I see one of these on one of my horses I do my best to kill it. Then I will spray some extra fly spray on the horse in case the fly brought friends. I have been bitten by horseflies several times and they are painful. Almost like a bee sting, so I do what I can to prevent them.

flies survive by eating different types of food

eg. nectar from flowers, germ infested food from rubbish bins

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They're parasites that live and feed on the blood of your pets but will bite humans. Images below-

The most common fly to be found in the home (and subsequently the one which eats our food!) is the Musca domestica, or Common House Fly. As this fly can only eat liquid food they will ‘spit’ out saliva onto solid foods to aid in pre-digestion. Also due to their high intake of food they almost constantly deposit faecal matter. This coupled with the ‘vomiting’ increases your chances of coming into contact with the diseases they carry. Flies can also carry diseases ‘picked up’ from contact with infected humans, such as Typhoid or Polio. As well as the above, Flies can also cause/spread Diarrhoea, vomiting, anthrax, cholera, eye-infections… That’s why we cover our food!

Yes, there are numerous cases of maggots bursting out of animals and peoples skin.

Spider wasps have curled antennae and black wings but can also have different color markings such as red or yellow . The female spider wasp will hunt spiders to feed it's larvae.

About 6,000 feet high. They can keep flying up until the temperature is at 50° F or higher.