The house-fly : Musca domestica Linn. its structure, habits, development, relation to disease and control / by C. Gordon Hewitt.

  • Hewitt, C. Gordon (Charles Gordon), 1885-1920.
Date:
1914
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Credit: The house-fly : Musca domestica Linn. its structure, habits, development, relation to disease and control / by C. Gordon Hewitt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It. will be seen that, out of 649 Hies of various species which were bred from larvae found in garbage, 136 or 22 4 per cent, were Mu sea domestica. Summary of Substances in which Musoa domestioa Breeds. All the foregoing observations on the breeding places and substances in which flies breed may be conveniently summarised as follows: Excrementous Cow-manure Pig-manure Rabbit-manure Vegetable Spent hops Barley malt Decaying grain Excreta-soiled straw Cooked peas Bread or cake Rotten water melon „ and milk „ musk or other melons Rotten apricots „ cucumber „ bananas „ carrots „ cherries „ cabbage „ plums „ potato and peelings „ peaches Boiled rice Animal matter Rotten meat Rotten fowl feathers Carrion Old broth Cattle paunch contents Boiled egg Miscellaneous Kitchen refuse Snuff Fermenting substances in ashpits Expectoration with earth Sawdust and excrementous refuse Excreta-soiled paper, rags Garbage pile drainage Ensilage Cesspool Rubber All observations which have been made indicate that the chief breeding place of the house-fly is horse-manure or stable-refuse, and that, in addition, it is able to breed in other forms of excre- ment and in rotting or decaying animal and vegetable substances, especially when they are in a fermenting condition. Horse-manure Human excrement Fowl excrement