The common house fly is a common flying insect that is found throughout the world.
Flies also have a pair of transparent wings.
The house fly can taste using its its feet and with its mouthparts. House flies are dark gray, with four dark stripes down the top of the thorax. Adult females lay 120-150 tiny white eggs, usually in manure or other warm, moist, decaying organic matter. When they are this big, they burrow into the ground to pupate. The House Fly is often a carrier of diseases, such as typhoid fever, cholera, dysentery, and anthrax.