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Flies

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

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How often do flies lay eggs?

Flies lay eggs from one to eight times in their life. They live for 10-25 days, and depending on how fertile they are, can lay up to 500 eggs every 3-4 days.

What disease does the tsetse fly cause?

The tsetse fly carries the agent for trypanosamiasis, also known as sleeping sickness.

What is the diameter of a fly's eye?

Not as is commonly thought a billion images, the compound eye actually puts together all the images. They actually see in a mix of real time and slow motion. What they cannot see or detect is slow moving objects. How many times have you tried to swat a stationary fly only for it to be gone before the impact? try going in very very slowly and your success rate will rise! seriously they are not psychic!

There was a study done and it beats me how they did it but they managed to fuse some sort of microchip to the optical centre of the fly's brain and translate the data into a viewable image. I'm searching for it now as i type this, but this question came up on the Google search.

How long does it take to get maggots?

Fly eggs hatch after about one day. Actual maggots become apparent after about four days. It is then about three weeks before they become flies.

You had a leak under your bath and since then you have these small midge-like flies that come into the bathroom in the evening when its warm what can you do to get rid of them?

Most likely something is rotting under the bath. You will probably need to disconnect the taps and plug outlet, remove it and checkout the floorboards and whatever is underneath them.

How do you reduce flies population?

make your surroundings clean and all trashcans are tightly close..

Do flies have external shells or plates?

A fly has an exoskeleton which means their skeleton is on the outside of their body instead of inside. This helps protect them from enemies.

How many types of flies is there?

With literally hundreds of thousands of fly species (estimated as 119,500 known species of flies) in the world, it is equally as easy to point out some more favored species. Many species of flower fly larvae, for example, feed on aphids. Flower flies are beneficial to any garden.

What are Carrion flies?

Flies that eat dead things.

Do flies poop or regur when landing?

yes they do. it is said that where ever a fly lands lands it either lys eggs or poops there. unless it stays for a llong ime

What is a flys niche?

a flys niche is to fly a round and bug people lol not really i have no clue sorry

How fast can a house fly fly?

about as fast as a car when trying not a ferrahi more like a vaults wagon polo

What is a person that can fly?

A person who flies a plane is called a pilot, aviator or flier.

What owl species flies top speed?

The Great Horned Owl is the fastest owl of any species. Its top speed clocks in at a whopping 40 miles per hour.

What is a Flies niche?

To help decompose garbage and unwanted food. But make sure it doesn't touch your dinner or you'll be eating what it last ate!;)

How high can seagulls fly?

They fly up to cloud base. I've passed them at around 8,000ft in this country. They then use the thermals as a glider does.