Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Attack of the Flies

Studies found that maggots will seek protective places to pupate and turn into flies. Maybe that’s the reason we have not seen those maggots anymore. Now those maggots are back, but this time they get older and bigger. They turn into flies. Euww! There goes our healthy office environment. No food can be left uncovered.

I did some digging on flies, just to make sure that we are not in great danger surrounded by the species. As long as we have our food covered and we wash our hands before taking our meals, there shouldn’t be anything to worry about.

The genus we have at level 3 is called blow fly. They usually breed in meat scraps, animal excrement, and decaying animal matter. They don’t bite like stable flies. They will live up to 21 days. I’m not sure whether we should get a fly trap or let them die after 21 days. I just hope nobody will get sick in this near future.

All photos taken by Chuop

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

ayoo, gambar saya pun tade, kak ain letak lalat kesayangan dulu? ni yg nak jeles dgn lalat-lalat kesayangan kak ain ni. eheheh

catz said...

Lalat kesayangan awak lah! :) Jgn abaikan your pets yeah. :D