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Flies

What are flies? Why do I have them? Are they dangerous?

These buzzing insects also play important roles in nature, including pollinating plants, breaking down organic material, and serving as food for other bugs and animals. a fly infestation can get out of hand so fast, it’s due to their rapid reproductive cycle. A single fruit fly can lay around 500 eggs in her lifetime and the entire life cycle from egg to adult only takes about a week. House flies typically live 15 to 25 days, but can survive up to two months under optimal conditions. Since house flies regularly feed and lay eggs on feces, garbage, decaying animals, and other filthy places, they can transfer disease-ridden microbes when they land on humans, household surfaces, and food that has been left out. Because of this, many fly species are known to spread disease to humans. In fact, the common house fly is suspected of transmitting at least 65 diseases to people such as Cholera, Typhoid fever, dysentery etc…

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