Musca domestica
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It neither bites nor stings, but shuttles between dung and food and carries typhoid, dysentery, cholera and gut parasites on its feet and mouthparts. Do not eat exposed food it has landed on.
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Four dark longitudinal stripes on the thorax
The fourth wing vein bends sharply upward near the wing tip
No piercing stylet — a soft sponging pad-like proboscis