Identification

Adults are 5–6mm long, females are larger and have a wider gap between their eyes compared to males. They generally look like houseflies but are smaller and only have 2 two dark longitudinal stripes on their thorax.

Eggs are laid in the excrement of cows, horses, sheep, dogs, and other large animals; they develop in 7 hours at 32 ℃. Females can lay 5 batches of 50 eggs.

Larvae or maggots are 7-10 mm in length and take 2–3 days to develop.

Pupae are about 8 mm long, bluntly rounded at both ends, and the colour ranges from yellow, red, to black as the pupa ages. It takes 3 to 18 days for the adult bush fly to emerge

Life Cycle

2–5 weeks