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Dewatered Sewage Biosolids Provide A Productive Larval Habitat For Stable Flies And House Flies (Diptera: Muscidae), Carl W. Doud, David B. Taylor, Ludek Zurek
Dewatered Sewage Biosolids Provide A Productive Larval Habitat For Stable Flies And House Flies (Diptera: Muscidae), Carl W. Doud, David B. Taylor, Ludek Zurek
David B. Taylor
Species diversity and seasonal abundance of muscoid flies (Diptera: Muscidae) developing in biosolid cake (dewatered biosolids) stored at a wastewater treatment facility in northeastern Kansas were evaluated. Emergence traps were deployed 19 May through 20 October 2009 (22 wk) and 27 May through 18 November 2010 (25 wk). In total, 11,349 muscoid flies were collected emerging from the biosolid cake. Stable flies (Stomoxys calcitrans (L.)) and house flies (Musca domestica (L.)), represented 80 and 18% of the muscoid flies, respectively. An estimated 550 stable flies and 220 house flies per square-meter of surface area developed in the biosolid …