Key Features
Flies are a serious nuisance which regularly transmit diseases through their foul feeding and breeding habits. They indiscriminately walk over food and rotting matter carrying and spreading bacteria.
Biology
All species of flies feed by vomiting saliva on to a food surface, treading it in and sucking up the resulting liquid. During this process, flies contaminate the food with bacteria from its gut and its feet. Thus, flies can easily transmit extremely serious diseases such as food poisoning, dysentery, typhoid or cholera.
Flies can also carry the eggs of parasitic worms.
An extremely effective method of removing a wide variety of flies from the area involves the use of electric fly traps. There are also various chemical treatments which can be highly effective as part of a course of treatment.
