However, studies related to aggregation of organisms transported mechanically by Muscoid
Diptera are few, and in this study we evaluate the frequency that the transported organism aggregated with other organisms in the same sample, i.e., simultaneous occurrence of different parasites in the same kind of host (Table 2).
The present report on lesser muscoid
flies in tsunami-hit costal villages of southern India one year after disaster suggests that the post-disaster relief efforts were mainly responsible for preventing occurrence of any control outbreak of any vector borne diseases.
If present, adult muscoid
pest flies (house flies, Musca domestica; stable flies, Stomoxys calcitrans; and blow flies, Calliphoridae sp.) were trapped live with fly pheromone-baited jug traps or live-netted from livestock buildings, dumpsters, garbage cans, feed containers, and animal wash stations.
This year's first place award was presented to Charles Krebs, Charles Krebs Photography Issaquah, Wash., for his reflected light image of a muscoid
fly (house fly).
Amazingly, though flies are typically regarded as nothing more than a pesky nuisance, this image of a muscoid
fly conveys an element of wonder, and beat out over 1,700 photomicrographs that beautifully captured everything from crystallized potassium chlorate to seaweed to Velcro.
A similar argument applies to invertebrates as well: although rove beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) are found in many types of decaying organic matter, such as carrion, they do not actually consume carrion, but prefer to feed upon the larvae of muscoid
flies (Diptera) (Reed 1958).
They are single-minded; they choose only muscoid
flies on which to feed and release their progeny.
Dynamics of Entomophthora muscae (Zygomycetes: Entomophthoraceae) among naturally infected muscoid
fly (Diptera: Muscidae) hosts.
More specifically, muscoid
flies are considered the most important group of insects to forensics.
(Thysanoptera: Thripidae) and an unidentified muscoid
fly (Diptera: Muscidae) each in the summer and fall (Table 1, Fig.
Background & objectives: In the tsunami (December 2004) affected coastal villages located on southern parts of Coramandel Coast of India, seawater intrusion has created serious problems for the people, in order to assess the risk of outbreak of fly-borne diseases, a longitudinal study for one year was carried out to investigate muscoid
fly abundance and their distribution in relation to various phases of relief measures in disaster-hit villages.
Life history of Spalangia gemina Boucek (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae), a fast-breeding microhymenopteran pupal parasitoid of muscoid