{"id":1392,"date":"2012-06-20T10:32:38","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T15:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allisonpest.com\/blog\/?p=1392"},"modified":"2012-06-20T10:32:38","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T15:32:38","slug":"the-disgusting-habits-of-house-flies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/20\/the-disgusting-habits-of-house-flies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Disgusting Habits Of House Flies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allisonpest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/house-fly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-640\" title=\"house-fly\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allisonpest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/house-fly.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"131\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allisonpest.com\/insect-pest-control\/nuisance-insects.php#drain-fly\">HOUSE FLIES<\/a>\u2026Everyone has encountered them at some point in time.\u00a0 There are over 300,000 species of flies that have currently been identified report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allisonpest.com\/home-pest-control\/index.php\">pest control professionals in Ocean Country, NJ<\/a>.\u00a0 They are a common household pest both indoors and outdoors.\u00a0 Flies are often just brushed away as an annoying creature that is a bother at backyard barbeques or critters that happen to get trapped inside of the home.<\/p>\n<p>In comparison to some home invading insects like cockroaches, bed bugs, termites, and ants, flies may seem like a tame insect to have flying around.\u00a0 Here are some interesting fly facts that will likely make you think differently about the pests&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0House flies don\u2019t bite.\u00a0 That\u2019s about the only good news about these insects!<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0House flies have a airly short lifespan\u2026typically ranging about 30 days.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0Female flies will lay about 30,000 eggs in their short life.\u00a0 Eggs will hatch in 10-14 days.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0House flies feed off of food, rotting animal carcasses, or even feces!<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0Flies vomit on food before they eat it.\u00a0 Yuck!<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0House flies lay their eggs when they land on the food that they feed upon.\u00a0 You never know where that fly that has landed on your dinner plate has been.\u00a0 Are you still hungry?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0Flies defecate every four to five minutes\u2026on any place that they land.<\/p>\n<p>You can spend your time walking around your home with a fly swatter and patrolling your yard like a Nazi, yet never kill off all the nasty flies that are lurking about.\u00a0 Contacting a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allisonpest.com\/pest-control-services\/index.php\">pest control specialist in Ocean County, NJ<\/a> can help keep disease ridden flies to a minimum!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSE FLIES\u2026Everyone has encountered them at some point in time.\u00a0 There are over 300,000 species of flies that have currently been identified report pest control professionals in Ocean Country, NJ.\u00a0 They are a common household pest both indoors and outdoors.\u00a0 Flies are often just brushed away as an annoying creature that is a bother at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[57,56],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - 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