Houseflies can transmit intestinal worms and/or their eggs, and are potential vectors (carriers) of diseases such as dysentery, gastroenteritis, typhoid cholera and tuberculosis. They feed frequently and indiscrimately on any liquefiable solid or moist food, putrefying material or food stored for human consumption.Flies liquefy food by regurgitating digestive juices and their stomach contents on the food substance.
This liquid is then drawn up by the sucking mouthparts and in so doing the insects pick up pathogenic organisms, which may collect on their bodies to be transferred on contact with other surfaces, or survive being passed through the gut to be deposited as fly spotting. Fly spotting is produced when the fly feeds or defecates.
Flies have rapid and prolific breeding habits and high mobility. In order to break the life-cycle, control methods should be directed against both the larvae and the adult flies
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