Guardian Nature School Team Contact Blog Project Noah Facebook Project Noah Twitter

A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife

Join Project Noah!
nature school apple icon

Project Noah Nature School visit nature school

Housefly

Musca domestica

Description:

Characteristic: the adults are 8–12 mm long. Their thorax is gray, with four longitudinal dark lines on the back. The whole body is covered with hair-like projections. Life cycle: egg stag (1 day), elarva stage (4-7 days), pupa stage (3-26 days), adult stage Foods: feed on feces, open sores, sputum, and moist, decaying organic matter, such as spoiled food, eggs, fruit and flesh

Habitat:

all around the world except the place with cold climate (Arctic and Antarctic)

Notes:

This is a housefly, zoom a little bit and you will see its color of green-yellow. Found this fly flying around in my garden :D

Species ID Suggestions



Sign in to suggest organism ID

No Comments

Janessquare
Spotted by
Janessquare

กรุงเทพมหานคร, Krung Thep, Thailand

Spotted on Mar 7, 2012
Submitted on Mar 8, 2012

Related Spottings

Musca housefly Fly Housefly

Nearby Spottings

Lymnaea Fern Home fly Yellow elder/Yellow Trumpetbush
Noah Guardians
Noah Sponsors
join Project Noah Team

Join the Project Noah Team