Pest - Flies

Around 120,000 different kinds of flies (order Diptera) are now known worldwide and it is estimated that there may be more than 1,000,000 species living today. It’s little wonder flies have diversified to take up wide range of ecological roles and people have to deal with many of them in everyday life. Here we try to list some of major pest flies or their groups that are causing huge economic losses, transmit human and animal diseases or simply annoy us in everyday life.

Being one of the bigger insect groups that have regular contacts with humans, flies quite often are vectors for different bacteria, viruses, protists and other disease causing agents. Here we will take a look at some of the diseases transmitted by flies.