House Flies

• Where there are humans there are house flies. The only exception is where the temperature is too cold for them

• They like to lay their eggs in faeces

• They are particularly fond of rubbish, especially wet and warm rubbish

• They lack any kind of shyness and are quite opportunistic. Flies will go almost anywhere to find food

• Their bodies are usually ridden with germs that are harmful to us. They regularly cause us many illnesses

• House flies will happily land on our food and very often poison it

• They can taste using their feet - the same feet that may have walked on cow dung!

• They can only drinks liquids (or very soft tissue) and use their saliva to soften and liquefy solid foods

• The long list of diseases that house flies can carry includes anthrax, dysentery, typhoid fever and cholera

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