Bercol fly traps

THE FLY

The fly has existed for millions of years and there are over 60,000 different species. The fly is spread throughout the world, and more flies are hatched every day than there are humans on this planet. The female fly at the age of three days can lay up to 140 eggs in a soft, warm and moist place. What better place than in any rotting garbage or filth left exposed. In 24 hours the host is nourishing the larva which in two days will have increased in size a hundred fold. After a week of eating the larva changes into a hard shell and ten days later the shell cracks and a fly is born. Under ideal conditions a fly can live for three months and lay up to half a million eggs. It is the scourge of man and animals.The fly carries diseases and germs, and with global warming on the increase the habitat of the fly is going to expand into regions which do not normally suffer from the fly.

The fly feeds on liquid food which it sucks up through its proboscis. On the farm it enjoys cow manure and around our homes spilled food, rotting meat and plants. If it lands on your sugar bowl it will dissolve it with saliva before sucking it up. Unfortunately when the fly squirts the saliva it also has a habit of bringing up the contents of its stomach containing germs which are transmitted to humans.

A fly can transmit millions of bacteria which can create illness and disease. The fly likes waste water and sewerage. Diarrhoea and dysentery is the result of the fly passing the germs onto our food.

In colder climates the fly will hide in stables, attics and barns until it warms up. The fly will mate at temperatures above 15 degrees celsius.

The common house fly is responsible for more debilitating diseases and more human suffering throughout the third world than any other disease carrier.

The house fly, throughout the world and especially Africa is the vector of many human pathogens such as bacillary dysentery, typhoid fever, cholera, salmonellosis, anthrax, leprosy, yaws, trachoma, poliomyelitis, infectious hepatitus and parasitic worms.



			THE FLY The fly has existed for millions of years and there are over 60,000 different species. The fly is spread throughout the world, and more flies are hatched every day than there are humans on this planet. The female fly at the age of three days can lay up to 140 eggs in a soft, warm and moist place. What better place than in any rotting garbage or filth left exposed. In 24 hours the host is nourishing the larva which in two days will have increased in size a hundred fold. After a week of eating the larva changes into a hard shell and ten days later the shell cracks and a fly is born. Under ideal conditions a fly can live for three months and lay up to half a million eggs. It is the scourge of man and animals.The fly carries diseases and germs, and with global warming on the increase the habitat of the fly is going to expand into regions which do not normally suffer from the fly. The fly feeds on liquid food which it sucks up through its proboscis. On the farm it enjoys cow manure and around our homes spilled food, rotting meat and plants. If it lands on your sugar bowl it will dissolve it with saliva before sucking it up. Unfortunately when the fly squirts the saliva it also has a habit of bringing up the contents of its stomach containing germs which are transmitted to humans. A fly can transmit millions of bacteria which can create illness and disease. The fly likes waste water and sewerage. Diarrhoea and dysentery is the result of the fly passing the germs onto our food. In colder climates the fly will hide in stables, attics and barns until it warms up. The fly will mate at temperatures above 15 degrees celsius. The common house fly is responsible for more debilitating diseases and more human suffering throughout the third world than any other disease carrier. The house fly, throughout the world and especially Africa is the vector of many human pathogens such as bacillary dysentery, typhoid fever, cholera, salmonellosis, anthrax, leprosy, yaws, trachoma, poliomyelitis, infectious hepatitus and parasitic worms.

		For more information contact Brian Shiels