Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1917 — House Flies Shout-Lived. [ARTICLE]

House Flies Shout-Lived.

The average life of 3,000 caged house files has been found by R. H. Hutchinson and others to be slightly more than ten days, the greatest age noted having been seventy days. Egg laying usually begins in four or five days after the emergence of the adult fly, but sometime in two and one-half days. This period is greatly Influenced by temperature, but also by humidity and the kind and quality of the food of -both larvae and adults. , ■ '