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About 1/4'' in length; dull gray in color; thorax marked longitudinally with 4 dark stripes; abdomen pale and fourth wing vein is angled. |
Warm organic material such as animal & poultry manure, garbage, decaying vegetables and fruits and in piles of moist leaves and lawn clippings. |
6-10 Days |
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Looks much like the housefly, but its needle-like mouthpart reveals its predilection for blood meals. | Green vegetation, seaweed and bay grass deposits and animal manure. | 8-21 Days | NON-CHEMICAL |
CHEMICAL |
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3/8'' to 9/16'' in length, dull grayish- black in color with three dark stripes on the thorax. |
Decayed flesh and spoiling meat, manure, wounds in living animals and sometimes garbage. | 8-21 Days | NON-CHEMICAL |
CHEMICAL |
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About 1/2'' in length with shiny metallic blue-green abdomen and thorax. |
Dead animal carcasses; decomposing meat and fish; garbage and sometimes animal excrement |
9-21 Days |
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About 1/2'' in length with a dull thorax and shiny blue abdomen. |
Dead animal carcasses; decomposing meat and fish; over-ripe fruit, decaying vegetable matter and sores on living humans. |
15-20 Days |
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About 1/2'' in length with a bronze abdomen and thorax. | Dead animal carcasses; decomposing meat and fish; garbage, and sometimes animal excrement. | 9-10 Days |
NON-CHEMICAL |
CHEMICAL |
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