The housefly, Musca domestica is a ubiquitous insect that has potential to spread wide variety of pathogens to humans and livestock animals leading to diseases and huge economic losses in developing countries. Flies have resisted human attempts to control them since antiquity and the problem of fly resistance to synthetic insecticides had resulted in need to develop biopesticides as an alternat...

Researchers have documented that the housefly (Musca domestica) can serve as a vector for the spread of foodborne pathogens to livestock, food, and humans. Most studies have investigated Musca domestica as a vector only after the fly comes into contact or consumes the pathogen as an adult. The objective of this study was to determine whether the larvae of Musca domestica could ingest Escherichi...

Adult and immature individuals of many insect species can survive anaerobic conditions for periods ranging from 4 hr. to 4 days, and even in a few cases for longer periods up to 56 days (see Brand, 1946, for numerous references). The present paper describes an investigation into some effects of anoxia on adult Musca domestica. A preliminary account of part of this work has been published (Heslo...

Species composition, seasonality and distribution of immature fly populations on a southern Queensland feedlot during 2001-2003 were determined. Similar data were collected on feedlots in central New South Wales and central Queensland. The fly species recovered in the highest numbers were Musca domestica L. (Diptera: Muscidae), Stomoxys calcitrans L. (Diptera: Muscidae) and Physiphora clausa Ma...

Thirty six species of horse flies (Tabanidae) were previously known from Serbia (Europe). The present faunistic study of horse flies (Tabanidae) has resulted in the recording of the 4 new species Atylotus fulvus (Meigen, 1804); Tabanus miki Brauer in Brauer and Bergenstamm, 1880; Tabanus unifasciatus Loew, 1858; and Heptatoma pellucens (Fabricius, 1776), in the fauna of Serbia. The genus Heptat...

The specimens Diptera: Musca dornestica and Ludlia sp. adapted to dark were offered two monochromatic lights of different wavelengths. Musca dornestica always preferred the light of a shorter wave out of two monochromatic equiquantum lights. Six color regions presumably qualitatively different were distinguished for this fly: violet-blue, blue, green, yellow-green, orange and red. Lucilia sp. e...

Kurşun, ağır metaller arasında oldukça toksik bileşiklerden biridir, organizmalar ve ekosistemler üzerinde ciddi problemlere yol açarlar. Bu çalışmanın amacı kurşunun adli açıdan önemli bir sinek olan musca domestica 'nın (diptera: muscidae) bazı gelişimsel parametreleri üzerindeki etkilerini incelemektir. Mevcut çalışmada 30 adet larvası dört farklı kurşun konsantrasyonuna maruz bırakılmış bes...