Family Structure
- Names: Flies, midges, keds, gnats, mosquitoes, maggots, bots
- Part of the fourth largest order of living organisms
- More known flies than vertebrates (120,000 different kinds of flies now known; estimates there may be a million species today)
Where Found
- Flies are found in all non-marine ecosystems
- Arctic and Antarctic are only places with no Flies
Characteristics
The economic importance of flies is immense
- Transmit diseases
- Mosquitoes and black flies carry more infections to humans than any other species!
- Flies destroy our food, especially grains and fruits
- Important as experimental animals (Drosophila) and biological control agents against weeds and other insects
Contact Us
Contact us for help with a Fly problem. You may also call either our Central Coast office or our Ventura County office.
