Kids
for House Fly
The house fly is the little gray fly buzzing around kitchens, trash cans, and picnics in summer, with big red eyes and four dark stripes down its back like tiny racing stripes. Here's a weird fact: it can't bite or chew. Instead of teeth it has a soft, spongy mouth, so it spits on food to turn it to liquid and then sponges it up, which is exactly as gross as it sounds. Source: https://extension.psu.edu/house-flies Source: https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/projex/gallery/dl/Beneficial_Arthropods_Parasitoids/TEXT/DIP_House_fly_Musca_domestica.html
Baby flies are pale wiggly maggots that live in garbage and manure before growing up. Because flies walk on dirty things and then land on our food, they can carry germs that make people sick, so cover food, seal trash, and screen the windows. A fly is basically a tiny mess that flies. Source: https://extension.psu.edu/house-flies