Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-05-17
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the construction of its mouth apparatus What
ever disease germs 1t carries 1t is passive
process, the chief danger being the contami-
nation OF foods by bacteria carried on the sur
lace of its body or in its bowels. OF all insects
lne mouse fly is the most constant companion Of
man, tasting his food by day and frequenting his
ABODE by night whether in the far north or the
lar south. whether on the land or the steamers
mat ply on the great oceans. It's very name,
Musca domestca, suggests its relation to man.
IL the fly were clearly insect he might per
maps De tolerated, but from the double life he
ieads there is no question that he should be ex-
terminated hip and thigh, for he spends half his
udy III the latrine or manure heap amid the most
loui putrid1ty that it is possible to imagine amid
uead' decaying, and diseased matter from which
al intervals he comes to battle in your milk jug
u 70 poise himself on your pat of butter or your
meat Many of his habits have until recently
peen riddle but are now becoming understood.
anu IN consequence his presence is as much
feared as many Of his congeners who have for
saken the dunghill for meal of good human or
animal blood
All modern experiments concur to show that
tne principal breeding place of the house fly is
IIe moist. warm manure heap cesspool or latrine,
aitnough perhaps 1t must be admitted that some
mes are more fastidious. If collections Of filth
we're DESTROYED the fly plague would be kept
.arsely In abeyance. AS things are he can breed
~ countless numbers and at great rate.
me evolution of the house fly is complex for
rom the moment that the female deposits her
ISIS III warm putrefying the young go
through various stages of development Within
d matter of hours the egg splits and a minute
STUD creeps out At the end of twentyfour hours
= mounts and passes into the second Iarval stage
winch In day or two mouths again and finally
becomes sort of chrysalis. At the end or three
" Tour days Of chrysalis life the case opens and
-, Tue ny emerges to commence it's life work. With
m, zen Gays or fortnight it may be sekually
,ute ana commence to lay great patches of eggs
40 rule breeding goes on rapidly between June
aug october although under certain cireuni.
stances 1t may go on all the year round It is
Union observation that flies seem to disappear
WINTER. This must be explained by their ability
n - hibernate the first warm day waking them
rom tier sumbers
,,a, fortunate circumstance that they are
f is 70 Variaus forms of destruction for apart
-. a me magnificent work carried out by the aird
- .ue spider, and other insects, the fly is subject
ueY astating diseases particularly an infective
M, set up by fungus the Empusa muscae
,s pant. In the form Of spore lights on the
o.. -aee OF the fly and begins to grow throwing
- slender process which makes its way be
-. 81 the nys scales and thus gains entrance 10
bss sy' IN the course Of few days the fungus
s,oI nEaded all its organs and tissues. and now
ma 'o death the fly may be easily caught or
utot uead where 1t has alghted.
= a. vas said above the chief danger of the hy
s. lat i may be carrier of foul putrefactiye or
se Germs to articles OF diet consumed nv
s,est MS is not Pigment OF the brain of the
loro scientist; 1t is proved fact Indeed
iese accurate experiments proved ibis to