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Pests
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Description
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Breeding Habits
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Life Cycle
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Control
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Non-Chemical
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Chemical
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House Fly
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About 1/4" in length; dull gray in color; thorax marked longitudinally with 4 dark stripes; abdomen pale and fourth wing vein is angled.
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Warm organic material such as animal and poultry manure, garbage, decaying vegetables and fruits and in piles of moist leaves and lawn clippings.
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6 to 10 days
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Sanitation and destruction of breeding sites; tight fitting garbage containers and screens on windows and doors.
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Larvicides; residual and space sprays; baits.
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Green Bottle
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About 1/2" in length with shiny metallic blue-green abdomen and thorax.
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Dead animal carcasses; decomposing meat and fish; garbage and some-times animal excrement.
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9 to 21 days
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Sanitation and destruction of breeding sites; tight fitting garbage containers and screens on windows and doors.
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Larvicides; residual and space sprays.
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Bronze Bottle
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About 1/2" in length with a shiny bronze abdomen and thorax.
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Dead animal carcasses; decomposing meat and fish, garbage and sometimes animal excrement.
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9 to 10 days
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Sanitation and destruction of breeding sites; tight fitting garbage containers.
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Larvicides; residual and space sprays.
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Blue Bottle
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About 1/2" in length with a dull thorax and shiny blue abdomen.
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Dead animal carcasses; decomposing meat and fish, garbage, over-ripe fruit, decaying vegetable matter and sores on living humans.
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15 to 20 days
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Sanitation and destruction of breeding sites; tight fitting garbage containers and screens on windows and doors.
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Larvicides; residual and space sprays.
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Moth Flies or Filter Flies
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1/16" to 1/8" in length; light gray to tan in color.
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Decomposing organic material such as moist plant litter, garbage, sewage, around kitchen or bathroom sinks and water traps in plumbing fixtures.
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7 to 20 days
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Sanitation and destruction of breeding sites, tight fitting garbage containers and moisture control.
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Larvicides; residual and space sprays.
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Eye Gnats
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About 1/16" in length, shiny black to dull gray in color with yellow or orange markings on the legs and have small mouthparts and bare aristae on antennae.
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Loose soil containing con-siderable organic material, decaying vegetation and animal excrement.
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7 to 28 days
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Sanitation and destruction of breeding sites.
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Repellents; residual and space sprays.
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Hump Backed
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About 1/8" in length with a small head and large thorax causing the fly to have a hump-backed appearance.
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Decaying vegetation, animal debris, garbage and in ant and termite nests.
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10 to 25 days
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Sanitation, destruction of breeding sites and moisture control.
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Residual and space sprays.
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Blind Mosquitoes
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3/16" to 1/2" in length with a slender body, large thorax, small head, and slender 5 to 14 segmented antennae.
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Lakes, ponds, rivers, streams, reservoirs and tanks.
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8 to 21 days
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Moisture Control
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No Suitable Control.
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Black Blow Flies
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About 1/3" in length with a shiny metallic dark blue abdomen and thorax.
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Dead animal carcasses; garbage and wounds in living animals.
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8 to 10 days
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Sanitation and destruction of breeding sites; tight fitting garbage containers.
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Larvicides; residual and space sprays.
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Flesh Flies
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3/8" to 9/16" in length, dull grayish-black in color with three dark stripes on the thorax.
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Decayed flesh and spoiling meat, manure, wounds in living animals and sometimes garbage.
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8 to 21 days
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Sanitation and destruction of breeding sites.
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Residual and space sprays.
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Vinegar Flies
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About 1/8" in length, brownish-black to brownish-yellow in color and have a feathery bristle on the antennae.
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Fermenting or rotting fruit and vegetable material and in garbage cans.
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Sanitation and destruction of breeding sites; tight fitting garbage containers.
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Residual and space sprays.
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Dump Flies
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About 1/4" long, black in color with a shiny thorax and abdomen.
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Garbage and fowl excrement. The larvae are predaceous on larvae of other flies.
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Sanitation and destruction of breeding sites.
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Larvicides; residual and space sprays.
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Secondary Screwworm Fly
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About 1/4" long, green in color, shiny abdomen and thorax with thorax marked lengthwise with 3 dark stripes.
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Dead tissue surrounding wounds in animals, fresh cut meats, and garbage.
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9 to 39 days
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Sanitation and destruction of breeding sites.
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Residual and space sprays.
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