2006-08-25 23:12:44 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Lifespan has a large variable component.
From egg (which hatches within 24 hours of being laid) to adult takes about 2 weeks.
After that, an adult will live from 2 to 4 weeks (14 to 28 days).
Read about it here if you wish confirmation...
http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/urban/flies/house_fly.htm
EDIT: added some stuff...
2006-08-26 00:52:40 · answer #1 · answered by slynx000 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adult flys average 15-30 days
Each female fly can lay up to 500 eggs (in five batches of 100 eggs each). The eggs are white and are about 1.2 mm in length. Within a day, the larvae (maggots) hatch from the eggs; they live and feed in (usually dead and decaying) organic material, such as garbage or feces. They are pale whitish, 3-9 mm long, thinner at the mouth end, and have no legs. At the end of their third instar, the maggots crawl to a dry cool place and transform into pupae, colored reddish or brown and about 8 mm long. The adult flies then emerge from the pupae. (This whole cycle is known as complete metamorphosis.) The adults live from half a month to a month. After having emerged from the pupae, the flies cease to grow; small flies are not young flies but the result of little food during the maggot stage.
Some 36 hours after having emerged from the pupa, the female is receptive for mating. The male mounts her from behind to inject sperm. Normally the female mates only once, storing the sperm to use it repeatedly for several sets of eggs. Males are territorial: they will defend a certain territory against other males and will attempt to mount any females that enter that territory.
Housefly pupae killed by parasitic wasp larvae. Each pupa has one hole through which a single adult wasp emerged; feeding occurs during the wasp's larva stage.
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Housefly pupae killed by parasitic wasp larvae. Each pupa has one hole through which a single adult wasp emerged; feeding occurs during the wasp's larva stage.
The flies depend on warm temperatures; generally, the warmer the temperature the faster the flies will develop. In the winter, most of them survive in the larval or pupa stage in some protected warm location.
Some species of wasps can parasitize and kill the pupae.
2006-08-26 03:07:08 · answer #2 · answered by yadayada 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
9 days
2006-08-25 23:20:08 · answer #3 · answered by g_20 v 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
With Raid Flying Insect Killer, about 2 minutes.
2006-08-25 23:19:31 · answer #4 · answered by gozu 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tooooo Long,
I Think About Seven Days Not Too Sure
2006-08-27 02:04:46 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mines called Jock ive had the little critter for approx 8 years. He likes to go out for long walks and loves splashing about in puddles. Oh and his favourite food is shiit.
2006-08-26 03:55:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Upon detection less than 30 seconds...20 seconds to allow freedom of exit or 9, 8, 7...opps, had yer chance!
2006-08-25 23:21:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
average life span of house fly is 24 hrs in which it has to find a mate and lay eggs.
2006-08-26 00:23:21 · answer #8 · answered by prateekemw2006 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
About one second if you aim your fly swatter slightly behind the filthy little critter. Flies do not take off in a forward direction.
2006-08-25 23:51:28 · answer #9 · answered by Kes 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
approx 3 weeks, but their larve the maggot live for longer before they burst out to form the fly.
2006-08-28 07:23:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋