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Mosquitos vs Housefly - What's the difference?

mosquitos | housefly |

As nouns the difference between mosquitos and housefly

is that mosquitos is while housefly is any fly regularly found in human dwellings.

mosquitos

English

Noun

(head)

    • housefly

    English

    (wikipedia housefly) (Musca domestica)

    Alternative forms

    * house fly, house-fly

    Noun

    (houseflies)
  • Any fly regularly found in human dwellings.
  • # The common housefly, Musca domestica , that frequents most homes and spreads some diseases.
  • #* 1990 , D. C. Kaslow, S. Welburn, 16: Insect-transmitted pathogens in the insect midgut'', M. Lehane, P. Billingsley (editors), ''Biology of the Insect Midgut , page 454,
  • Of the three potential means (carriage on the body and legs, regurgitation and defecation) by which houseflies' can transmit pathogens, one involves passage through the gut. During passage through the ' housefly , pathogens may replicate within the gut.
  • #* 2004 , R. Jurenka, Insect Pheromone Biosynthesis'', Stefan Schulz (editor), ''The Chemistry of Pheromones and Other Semiochemicals I , page 123,
  • In the housefly , M. domestica , sex pheromone production is correlated with egg development.
  • #* 2011 , Ross Piper, Pests: A Guide to the World's Most Maligned, Yet Misunderstood Creatures , page 102,
  • Houseflies are known to carry at least 100 different pathogens and they are vectors for at least 65 of these.