The Book of the Fly A nature study of the house-fly and its kin, the fly plague and a cure

Several authors of recent books, and lately also able lecturers, have done much to awaken people to a realisation of the dangers of our ever recurrent summer plague of flies. Th...

Just as the common "house-fly" and the "lesser house-fly" are often in error regarded as the same species with an insignificantly small difference of size, so the identity of ea...

Whereas the blue-bottle rarely enters the dwellings of mankind, except gravid females led by the sense of smell in search of fish, or flesh meat, and (less eagerly) sweets, both...

Although there are several other kinds of flies which occasionally visit the dwellings of mankind, there is one super-abundant species, _Musca domestica_, to which the name of "...

Many minor plans have been proposed for obviating or alleviating the perils and plague of invading fly swarms; several such plans may be well carried out on a private domestic s...

The family of the _Œstridæ_ is the most curious and horrific of all the different tribes of flies; it is very limited in species, of which five or six are prevalent throughout G...

We have seen in Chapter VIII that the checks which Nature has imposed upon the prolific breeding of the house-fly have been insufficient to protect civilised mankind from ancien...

The house-fly has quite the typical insect form, inasmuch as there are three well defined sections of body—the head, the chest or thorax, and the abdomen; also it has three pair...

The house-fly may seem at first much less to be dreaded than any one of the painfully "biting" or (to be correct) skin-piercing and blood-sucking flies; yet it should be regarde...

They certainly do join with a multitude of other flies in promiscuous scavenging services, and they can be very active agents therein; but this work only aggravates the fact of...

Flies, which are such insidious and pertinacious persecutors of man and beast, are themselves the prey of innumerable enemies; many species are much sought for by birds, they ar...

With the present day zeal for popularising interest in common things (called nature study) there has arisen the demand for knowledge practically useful and thoroughly up-to-date...

It might be supposed that a strongly developed house haunting proclivity would not be consistent with a disposition to roam far afield from the locality of birth. Many clever ex...