CATDOLL : CATDOLL: What do baby flies eat?

1. Do fly larvae eat plants?

The fly larvae do not eat plants.

Flies generally like to be outdoors during the day, occasionally flying indoors, and are good at flying. At night, they often live on trees or indoor ceilings, and like to gather in warm places when the temperature is low. Flies like to eat sweet fruits, plant juices, fermented products, and are even more greedy for fresh human and animal feces and smelly substances; the larvae mainly breed in human and animal feces piles, garbage, and decaying substances, feeding on feces and decaying substances, and some live in decaying animal carcasses. When the larvae mature, they sneak into the soil surface near toilets and manure pits to pupate and overwinter as pupae. The overwintering pupae can be as deep as about 10 cm in the soil.

2. What is the growth process of baby flies?

A fly lays a nest of tiny eggs on a piece of meat. Then they slowly turn into tiny insects. The insects eat the meat. Slowly they grow into a beetle.

3. What do small flies eat?

Flies are omnivorous insects, and most common species prefer sweet or carrion food, such as aphid flies and parasitic flies that like to visit flowers to suck nectar; fruit flies and fruit flies that like to eat fruit or rotten fruit; blow flies, house flies, and flesh flies that prefer carrion and feces. The large, trunk-like licking mouthparts are the weapon that most flies use to lick liquid food. Before licking, many flies will secrete digestive juices to dissolve the nutrients in the food before licking and absorbing it.

4. What do fly larvae eat?

Larvae like to feed on corrupted organic matter, such as human, livestock and poultry feces, animal carcasses, and fermented wheat bran, rice bran, peanut bran, bean cakes, etc. Adults like to eat liquid food with high protein content, especially sweet and fishy food.

larva

Larvae are commonly known as fly maggots, and there are three instars: the first instar larvae are 1~3mm long and have only the posterior spiracles. After molting, they become the second instar, 3~5mm long, with anterior spiracles and 2-lobed posterior spiracles. After molting again, they become the third instar, 5~13mm long, with 3-lobed posterior spiracles. The body color of fly maggots changes from transparent and milky white to creamy yellow from the first to the third instars until they mature and pupate. The third instar larvae are long conical, with a pointed front end and a truncated rear end, without eyes or feet. The life characteristics of fly maggots are that they like to drill holes, fear strong light, and live in dark places where they breed all day long. They are polyphagous, and all kinds of corrupt and fermented organic matter are their delicious food. The larval stage is a critical period in the life of flies, and the quality of their growth and development is directly related to the individual size and reproductive efficiency of the fly.

The larvae have pharyngeal bones, posterior spiracles, posterior spiracles, and small processes at the end of the abdomen. The third-instar larvae have small heads, hooked claw-like mouths, and are asymmetrical.