THE HOUSE FLY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 89, 14 April 1923, Page 24

THE HOUSE FLY.

ITS EVIL EFFECTS.

This is the time of the house fly. One slain now means myriads less in Auckland next season. Each housewife should cut out this catechism, read it each day, and act accordingly.

1. Where is the house fly born? In filth, chiefly in honse manure and outhouses. ■ ;■, ..-■'-.

2. How long is the life cycle of his birth? About ten. days from the time the egg is % laid until the manure ily 5s born.

3. What are the steps in *fte transformation from the egg to the fly? The egg, the maggot, the pupa, the fly. 4. Where does the fly live? Where there is filth.

5. Is, there anything too filthy for the fly to eat? No. C. Does the fly like clean "food, too? Yea, and it appears to be his de-light to wipe Ids feet on Clean food. 7. Where is his favourite place of feeding? The manure 'heap, the garbage can, and the privy vault.

8. Where does the fly go after, "eavjng the mum-re pile, the garbage can, and the privy vault? Into the kitchen, dining room, and bedroom;

9. What does he do in the kitchen, din in-*, room and bedroom? (Be wipes his feet oin the .food, bathes in the milk, and annoys the'eleep ; er. 10. Docs the Ily visit those sick with .typhpid fever, consumption, smallpox, t»nd cholera infantum?. He certainly does, and may call on *rou next.

11. How does he spread' disease? By carrying infection on hia legs and wings, and t>y "fly specie-"' after he has been feeding on infectious material.

12. What diseases may the fly thus carry? He may convey typhoid fever, tuberculosis, •cholera', dysentery and "st'-nmer complaint."

13. How may we successfully fight the ifly? By'destroying "or removing his j-breeding place, the manure pile, removing all garbage and making the privy vault fly-proof, a_d by keeping our yard and alley clean; by screening the ho-tso; iby the use of the wire swatter and stick fly-paper; by trapping the fly.