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SNIPE FLIES
They readily attack
humans, deer, cattle, and horses,
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SNIPE FLIES
usually inflicting a
painful bite around the head.
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SNIPE FLIES
Although they may be annoying to humans, livestock, and wildlife,
they
have not been implicated in the transmission of any disease organisms
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PHORID FLIES/HUMPBACKED FLIES
M_ scalaris is the phorid of most medical importance
Megaselia
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PHORID FLIES/HUMPBACKED FLIES
Megaselia S_ is the phorid of most medical importance
scalaris
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PHORID FLIES/HUMPBACKED FLIES
The female lays eggs in
fruits and vegetables, feces, and decaying plant and animal matter.
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PHORID FLIES/HUMPBACKED FLIES
Sporadic cases of facultative human myiasis caused by
M. scalaris include
cutaneous, pneumonic, nasal, gastrointestinal, urogenital, and ophthalmic myiasis
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PHORID FLIES/HUMPBACKED FLIES
Phorid larvae also are commonly associated with
decomposing animal remains, where they tend to be late invaders after the calliphorid flies have pupated
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PHORID FLIES/HUMPBACKED FLIES
Phorid larvae also are commonly associated with
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PHORID FLIES/HUMPBACKED FLIES
This fly is often a problem around
mausoleums and mortuaries, where the larvae develop in burial crypts, producing large numbers of adults
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PHORID FLIES/HUMPBACKED FLIES
is commonly associated with interred human remains that have been underground for up to a year
Coffin fly
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SMALL FRUIT FLIES/DROSOPHILIDAE
occasionally found in the
putrid effluents from corpses.
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SMALL FRUIT FLIES/DROSOPHILIDAE
Drosophila funebris has been reported to cause
intestinal myiasis in humans
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