. Animal parasites and human disease. Insect Vectors; Parasites; Parasitic Diseases; Medical parasitology; Insects as carriers of disease. 506 OTHER BLOOD-SUCKING FLIES. Fig. 241. Eggs of stable-fly, Stomoxys calcitrans. X 20. Note eggs natural size in upper corner. (After Newstead.) posited, sometimes deep in the decaying material selected, in small batches of from two to half a dozen, until from 25 to 50 or more are laid; there are a number of such depositions made by a single fly during her life. The eggs hatch in from two to five days, usually three, into whitish, almost transparent footle
. Animal parasites and human disease. Insect Vectors; Parasites; Parasitic Diseases; Medical parasitology; Insects as carriers of disease. 506 OTHER BLOOD-SUCKING FLIES. Fig. 241. Eggs of stable-fly, Stomoxys calcitrans. X 20. Note eggs natural size in upper corner. (After Newstead.) posited, sometimes deep in the decaying material selected, in small batches of from two to half a dozen, until from 25 to 50 or more are laid; there are a number of such depositions made by a single fly during her life. The eggs hatch in from two to five days, usually three, into whitish, almost transparent footless mag- gots (Fig. 242A) very similar to those of the housefly, but easify distinguishable by the position of the posterior stigmal plates (see Fig. 243). The larvae mature in a minimum of from 12 days to over two months, usually in about 15 to 20 days, and crawl into drier por- tions of the breeding material to pupate. The pupae (Fig. 242B) are olive-shaped, chestnut-colored ob- jects, one-fourth of an inch in length. With favorable temperatures the adult fly emerges in from six to ten days, but this period may be much prolonged by cold weather. The shortest time in which a stable-fly may develop from the time of egg-laying is about three weeks, and this is extended under conditions which are not ideal. According to Herms' experiments, the average length of life of stable-flies is about 20 days. They sometimes live several months, however. There are several other genera and species of the family Muscidse which sometimes bite man, but none of them are habitual feeders on human blood, and they are hardly worthy of special consideration, resemble Stomoxys in general appearance, though some, notably the common hornfly, Hcematobia serrata (or Lyperosia irritans), are much smaller. Their life histories are in general like that of Stomoxys, though there is some variation as regards choice of breeding places. Manure of various kinds is selected by some species, as it is by the house-
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