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Image ID TL246
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House Fly (Musca domestica)
Reproduction of drawing in text by Carl Burger
In: Will Barker Familiar Insects of America. (New York: Harper, [1960])
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The text accompanying this illustration details a litany of negatives:
"The house fly endangers the health of man and other animals because it carries disease germs in the digestive tract or on the hairy feet and legs. A fly carries the eggs of various parasitic worms, transmits typhoid, dysentery, and diarrhea; and has a part in causing cholera, yaws, and trachoma, among other diseases."

About the only good thing that can be said for House Flies is that they do not bite.