Summer Time Friend or Foe
An abject hate of flies, you not alone, with summer rains flies have arrived in our kitchens, buzzing around your face when outdoors, pesky insects that never seem to understand our need to not have them around, swatting normally is our solution to be rid of them. Where is the spay can, I can DOOM them!
Reaching back into our memories we will clearly remember singing "Shoo, Fly, Don't Bother Me!" as children, written by T. Brigham Bishop in 1869, resoundingly popular putting the fly on the hit-parade for life, still being sung by men, woman and children down the ages.
Renewal of summer flies appear out of nowhere.
Around the world there are numerous classifications of flies (actually hundreds of thousands), common residents of South Africa are Blow fly, Fruit fly, Drain fly, Flesh fly, yup includes great Mosquito, House fly, Cluster fly, Horse fly and Crane fly, gangly guy we call daddy long legs. Other than the Mosquito and Horse fly who tend to bring discomfort to humans and animals with an irritating bite, many hovering flies feed on nectar being beneficial to humans.
All have six legs, an anterior head, thorax and posterior abdomen two legs attached to each part of the body. Certain species of flies are used to detect length of death in carcasses where they lay eggs (developing into Maggots). With a timeline used from the insects life cycle, forensic scientist can determine how long a body has been dead for.
Maggots help clean up rotting flesh, therefore become useful to humans when used to clean wounds in the early days, most would likely say "yuck", it is something useful nonetheless.
At the end of the day, like most, treat flies as 'disease carries' the way we were brought up. Renewal of flies arriving after rains reminds one to be particularly cautious by put bones, or left overs into a freezer for collection day, never leaving them in dirt bins allowing flies to multiply rampantly around the home, rinsing dirt bins thoroughly, yes flies smell out all kinds of poop to breed in.
Entry for contest: Renewal - Life of Insects (Hexapoda) hosed by 
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