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What's the lifespan of a fly?

By Max Power Asked Sep 8 2006 2:38PM
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by HeatherJ21 on Sep 14, 2006 at 9:29 am Permalink

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Female lays 5-6 batches of 75-120 oval, white eggs on moist manure or garbage. Eggs hatch in 10-24 hours. Larvae reach full size in 5 days emerging as adults about 5 days latter. They are ready to mate within a few hours after emerging. During warm weather two or more generations may be completed in a month. Males live for 15 days, females up to 26 if they have access to milk, sugar, and water.
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Avatar Max Power Sep, 14 2006 at 11:12 AM
Sounds technical. How do you know this? Sources?

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by Sunblynd 5.0 on Sep 17, 2006 at 2:47 am Permalink

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Common Housefly Life Cycle;

Each female fly can lay up to 500 eggs (in five batches of 100 eggs each). The eggs are white and are about 1.2 mm in length. Within a day, the larvae (maggots) hatch from the eggs; they live and feed in (usually dead and decaying) organic material, such as garbage or feces. They are pale whitish, 3-9 mm long, thinner at the mouth end, and have no legs. At the end of their third instar, the maggots crawl to a dry cool place and transform into pupae, colored reddish or brown and about 8 mm long. The adult flies then emerge from the pupae. (This whole cycle is known as complete metamorphosis.) The adults live from half a month to a month in the wild, or longer in benign laboratory conditions. After having emerged from the pupae, the flies cease to grow; small flies are not young flies but the result of insufficient food during the larval stage.
Some 36 hours after having emerged from the pupa, the female is receptive for mating. The male mounts her from behind to inject sperm. Normally the female mates only once, storing the sperm to use it repeatedly for several sets of eggs. Males are territorial: they will defend a certain territory against other males and will attempt to mount any females that enter that territory.


Housefly pupae killed by parasitic wasp larvae. Each pupa has one hole through which a single adult wasp emerged; feeding occurs during the wasp's larva stage.
The flies depend on warm temperatures; generally, the warmer the temperature the faster the flies will develop. In the winter, most of them survive in the larval or pupa stage in some protected warm location.
Some species of wasps can parasitize and kill the pupae.
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Avatar Kitty Kat Sep, 26 2006 at 11:23 AM
haha you tell 'em sunblynd!!!
Avatar Castrate Sep, 27 2006 at 01:13 PM
You should at least cite your sources...
Avatar Sunblynd 5.0 Sep, 27 2006 at 03:06 PM
site it yourself...wikipedia.com, everything you ever really need to know is there...I didn't realize it was such a big secret.

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by Ziploxx on Jan 5, 2009 at 5:35 am Permalink

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The lifespan of a fly depends on your AIM!
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by JKS on Sep 4, 2008 at 3:42 pm Permalink

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The average fly will live for 36 hours. Unless it is swatted.
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by bribri2 on Sep 24, 2006 at 6:32 pm Permalink

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ill different because they never know what day there gonna get swatted or taken by a frog!!
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by markos_xavi on Dec 8, 2007 at 12:42 pm Permalink

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five days
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by tjatherton on Sep 8, 2006 at 5:29 pm Permalink

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I have heard anywhere between 24 -48 hours.
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Avatar game masta Sep, 08 2006 at 05:42 PM
Where did you hear that from? you have no source of information
Avatar tjatherton Sep, 08 2006 at 10:25 PM
In my more than fifty years on this earth, I have heard and read alot of things.

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by HeatherJ21 on Sep 16, 2006 at 7:15 am Permalink

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I love science. Thats what I do for a living, work at a biotech company. Im going into medicine though. :-)
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Avatar yoho05 reminds you to DYOH Oct, 05 2006 at 11:57 AM
If you want to add to your original answer, just edit it. Don't add another answer.

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by ranger149 on Sep 13, 2006 at 7:49 pm Permalink

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1-4 days usally 1 day because everyone and everything hates them.

a fly just flew by, SPLAT!!!!!!!


ha ha :]
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