Flies and mosquitoes

To that group belong insects which can cause passive diseases to human. Some insects of that group feeding on the blood. The more common flies are:

-House fly (Musca domestica): It is the most common of all domestic flies. Their thorax is gray, with four longitudinal dark lines on the back. The whole body is covered with hair-like projections.

-Flesh fly (Sarcophagidae carnaria): females deposited their larvae dung, decaying material or in the open wounds of mammals.

-Common fruit fly or vinegar fly (Drosophila melanogaster): fruit flies have brick red eyes and have transverse black rings across their abdomen. This fly is small between 1 and 1,5 millimeters).

-Tabanids: those insects are big, until 3 centimeters and their eyes are bulging. The mainly species are Haetopota pluvialis, Stomoxys calcitrans and Trabanus bromius.

- Mosquitoes: are small (5 millimeters). Adults have has an elongated proboscis used for feeding (sucking blood). The female needs to obtain nutrients from a blood meal before she can produce eggs and in that way, she transmitted diseases like malaria, dengue fever or yellow fever.