CATDOLL : CATDOLL: What do fly larvae eat?

1. Will flies lay eggs in the flowers of fruits? How to prevent it?

As long as there is nutritious material, flies will lay eggs there. Fly larvae, maggots, only eat rotten material, and will not eat anything that is not rotten. You should know that some flies get nutrients from flowers!

Prevention: Clean a layer of 5-7 cm of the topsoil in the pot, and then fill it with new soil. This can mainly remove a large number of insect eggs in the topsoil and reduce the number of flies. It is best to sprinkle a layer of quicklime on the topsoil filled with new soil. This can mainly prevent the larvae in the deep layer from climbing up and be killed in the quicklime. It can also prevent flies from laying eggs in the topsoil. This is a better and more effective way to remove flies.

2. The issue of flies laying eggs: Will flies lay eggs on living people?

Because fly larvae only eat rotten meat, they cannot eat fresh meat. Flies will not choose the skin of healthy people to lay eggs, and their ovipositors are not strong enough to pierce the skin. In addition, the eggs of flies are only one millimeter long and 0.1 millimeter wide at the egg stage. Anything larger than this is not a fly egg.

3. What do fly larvae eat?

Larvae like to feed on corrupted organic matter, such as human, livestock and poultry feces, animal carcasses, and fermented wheat bran, rice bran, peanut bran, bean cakes, etc. Adults like to eat liquid food with high protein content, especially sweet and fishy food.

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Larvae are commonly known as fly maggots, and there are three instars: the first instar larvae are 1~3mm long and have only the posterior spiracles. After molting, they become the second instar, 3~5mm long, with anterior spiracles and 2-lobed posterior spiracles. After molting again, they become the third instar, 5~13mm long, with 3-lobed posterior spiracles. The body color of fly maggots changes from transparent and milky white to creamy yellow from the first to the third instars until they mature and pupate. The third instar larvae are long conical, with a pointed front end and a truncated rear end, without eyes or feet. The life characteristics of fly maggots are that they like to drill holes, fear strong light, and live in dark places where they breed all day long. They are polyphagous, and all kinds of corrupt and fermented organic matter are their delicious food. The larval stage is a critical period in the life of flies, and the quality of their growth and development is directly related to the individual size and reproductive efficiency of the fly.

The larvae have pharyngeal bones, posterior spiracles, posterior spiracles, and small processes at the end of the abdomen. The third-instar larvae have small heads, hooked claw-like mouths, and are asymmetrical.

4. Do fly larvae eat plants?

The fly larvae do not eat plants.

Flies generally like to be outdoors during the day, occasionally flying indoors, and are good at flying. At night, they often live on trees or indoor ceilings, and like to gather in warm places when the temperature is low. Flies like to eat sweet fruits, plant juices, fermented products, and are even more greedy for fresh human and animal feces and smelly substances; the larvae mainly breed in human and animal feces piles, garbage, and decaying substances, feeding on feces and decaying substances, and some live in decaying animal carcasses. When the larvae mature, they sneak into the soil surface near toilets and manure pits to pupate and overwinter as pupae. The overwintering pupae can be as deep as about 10 cm in the soil.

5. What do maggots eat to make them grow quickly?

The larvae like to feed on decaying organic matter, such as human, livestock and poultry feces, animal carcasses, and fermented wheat bran, rice bran, peanut bran, bean cakes, etc.

Adults like to eat liquid food with high protein content, especially food with sweet or fishy smell.

6. Do fly maggots eat raw meat?

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Fly maggots, of course, eat raw meat. Maggots do not eat cooked meat. They live and reproduce in raw meat. The nutrients such as protein in rotten meat have been decomposed, and maggots are saprophytes. They do not have digestive organs in their bodies and cannot digest some organic matter, so they can only eat the decomposed components.

However, maggots do not eat fresh meat. The protein and other nutrients in rotten meat have already been decomposed. Maggots are saprophytes and do not have digestive organs in their bodies. They are unable to digest some organic matter, so they can only eat the decomposed components.