Have you ever wondered why flies rub their hands and legs together? Flies rub their hands and legs together to clean them. Tiny particles floating in the air and from things a fly sits on get stuck in the hairs on the fly’s legs. Rubbing the legs and hands together...
Are flies suddenly swarming your home or yard and becoming a serious problem? A lot of flies mean there’s a fly infestation in your house or area where at least 1 female fly laid a batch of eggs that hatched and grew into flies. In warm, wet weather eggs can produce...
If there are big flies around your home or yard that can bite, you probably have horse flies. Horse flies are large flies with a gray or black body, shiny green or purple eyes, and short antennae. In summer, female horse flies bite people and animals to feed on their...
If there are large metallic-colored flies buzzing around your home or yard, you probably have blow flies. Blow flies have shiny blue, green, bronze, or black bodies and make a loud buzz when they fly. Blow flies are bigger than house flies, and they’re usually the...
If you have what looks like mosquitoes walking around your indoor plants or you’re finding worms with black heads in the potting soil, you probably have fungus gnats. Fungus gnats are small flies that come into houses to lay their eggs in damp potting soil. Worms,...
