### animal | arthropod | insect:

Housefly
* Houseflies are a common species worldwide
  - active during the day
  - also vectors, physically transporting infected feces
  - attracted to the smell of food
  - blackness
  - eaten by beetles and mites
  - everywhere in our homes and in extension in our lives
  - found almost anywhere, especially places where humans live too
* Houseflies are grey and black with four black stripes on the back
  - or black and can be found wherever people are
  - important in breaking down and recycling nutrients and organic material
  - major pests
  - solitary creatures
  - the most common pests in and around homes
  - become nuisances
* Houseflies breed during the warmer months of the year
  - in places where garbage or manure accumulates
* Houseflies can be a novel biomonitor of atmospheric pollutants
  - useful especially in waste management
  - fly very fast to get away from enemies
  - carry bacteria
  - eat with their mouths but taste with their feet, which is why they crawl on food
* Houseflies have a spongy tonguelike labrum for sopping up a variety of foods
  - complete metamorphosis
  - dark gray or gray and yellow bodies with dark lines
* Houseflies includes air sacs
  - brains
  - carapaces
  - cell membranes
  - cells
  - corpi
  - plasma membranes
  - sections
  - live close to humans, in urban and rural areas
* Houseflies live in a very large area and are big pests to humans
  - households
  - temperate regions, meaning places that have seasons
* Houseflies pass through distinct stages
  - pick up germs when they land on rotting food or dead animals
  - reproduce faster than many other kinds of flies
  - seem to have a mysterious power to transcend the cold
  - spend the winter months as adults, making any warm area their home
  - spread disease organisms by regurgitating and excreting wherever they land
  - travel to cooler and drier spots when they are about to become pupae
* Houseflies use an unconventional form of aerodynamics to stay aloft
  - proboscises
* Most houseflies become nuisances
  - emerge from pupas
* Most houseflies have complete metamorphosis
  - live in households
  - use proboscises
* Some houseflies carry diseases.
* Some houseflies enter pupa stages
* Some houseflies have expectancy
  - life expectancy
  - long life expectancy
  - senses
* Some houseflies live in homes
  - up to months
* larvae compete with fungi for nutrients, because both grow in manure.
+ Fly, Kinds of flies: Flies
  * There are many different kinds of flies. Houseflies are grey or black and can be found wherever people are. Horse flies and deer flies can bite people and animals. Fruit flies can be found near fruit that is too ripe. Hoverflies look like small wasps, but they have no sting.

Hymenopteran
* Most hymenopterans live solitary lives and their behavior is more likely to be flight than fight.
* Some hymenopterans can also telescope the abdomen in and out.
* are a taxonomic group of insects that exhibit diverse interactions with plants
  - bees, wasps, and ants
* is an insect
* range in size from very small to large insects, and usually have two pairs of wings.

Imago
* group of four young musicians whose love for music is full of passion.
* is the name given to the adult form of insects with indirect development.

Immature insect
* Most immature insects go through stages.
* are similar in color, but smaller.
* require a blood meal each of the five times they molt.

Insect control
* can be important for controlling spread of viruses, mycoplasmas, bacteria and fungi.
* is desirable in covered carports and garages where spiders enjoy setting their webs
  - essential for prevention of wilt
  - very important in the greenhouse, but much more difficult outdoors
* requires the utmost vigilance to minimize the use of insecticides.