Show KINDS OF FLIES FOUND IN HOMES careful observation required to distinguish true house variety from others CLUSTER FLY IS ANNOYING stable species exactly resembling house fly breeds in decaying matter and excrement description of other species prepared by the united S states totes department ot of sen eral species s of flies tire found commonly in lio houses uses some of them so closely resoluble the true trub houe aliouse lly fly that lint it requires very enrie careful ful observe don to h them broili it one of these is tile billang stable lly fly fig 1 li I 1 occurs frequents in houses and dirkers from the house lly fly fig I 1 the stable or biting hous fly in the lie important particular that eliat its mouth parts are fori formed nerl tor for piercing the skin this fly Is so 0 often mistaken tor for the house fly that most people think that the house fly can bite causes causee much annoyance another frequent visitant of 0 houses particularly in the spring and fay fall Is the cluster ly fly it Is somewhat larger than the house fly and Is distinguished fig 2 A stable fly by its iti emering cohering of alne hairs occasionally tills this fly occurs in lions houses in such numbers as to baue great anno norance abuce it gets its name of cl cluster uter fly from its habit babit of collecting in compact groups or clusters in protected comers during cold periods in Z i fig 3 one of the bluebottle blue ulue bottle flies tile tall maggot 11 ll of singe it Is parasitic on certain angleworms angle worms i specially a common i colored another Anoli or species which almost exactly x the lloil house e ily fly 1 as j tile the flable fly it breeds in table inetter find and in excrement several species of metallic gre greenish enill or bluish lies flies also ire are found occasionally in houses these o incaudo the blow I 1 fig A 4 one of the green bottle flies fly or meat ineat fly the bluebottle blue bottle 3 and the green bottle alg 4 flies file they breed in decaying animal nal matter lesser house fly there Is stul another species smaller than any ally of those so far mentioned which Is sometimes called cje lesser house fly tile the lesser house fly Is from the ordinary house fly by its paler and more pointed body tile the male which la Is commoner than tile the female has large pale patches at the base ot of the abdomen which are translucent when tle hr fly ia s see seen n on the window pane these little flies are not the young of the larger flies flies do riot not grow after the ingia liae once expanded and dried in lato late summer and autumn many specimens of a small fruit fly known as the vinegar fly make their appearance tile odor of pe arance attracted by fruit all of these species however are greatly dwarfed in numbers by the common house fly ira in lotio 1900 tile senior author trade made collections collect lona of tile flies lit in dining rooms moms in different parts of the country and f found that the true house fly made up tip SS per cert of the dhole number inin ber captured tike remainder various spec sp eie leq including those mentioned abbie |