Facts, Identification & Control
Your local Allstate Pest Control technician is trained to help manage bottle flies and similar pests. Since every building or home is different, your Allstate Pest Control technician will design a unique program for your situation.
Allstate Pest Control can provide the right solution to keep bottle flies in their place…out of your home, or business.
Where Do They Live?
Bottle flies are typically found outdoors. If large numbers of the pests are found inside, an indoor breeding site may have been established. To eliminate bottle flies, it is important to implement stringent sanitation measures, which include cleaning garbage containers and making sure that the lids are seated tightly.
What Do They Eat?
Among many other kinds of decomposing organic matter, the following serve as the insects’ food source and breeding grounds:
- Decaying animal flesh
- Feces
- Garbage
- Rotting meat
A female bottle fly can lay in excess of 2,000 eggs in a lifetime. The eggs are pale yellow or gray in color. Resulting larvae measure 9 to 22 mm in length and may hatch within two to three days, depending on temperature. Within two to 10 days, larvae seek pupation sites, from which they eventually emerge as adult flies. Bottle flies breed in damp, organic matter such as dead animals.
Bottle flies are also good pollinators. They often pollinate flowers with strong odors, such as pawpaws and goldenrod. When food sources are diminished, they feed upon the nectar of these flowers in order to produce healthy eggs.