House Fly Mouth

The often maligned common house fly, Musca domestica, is considered to be a nuisance as well as a vector for many diseases affecting both humans and animals. This is due largely to the eating habits of this species, which consumes and contaminates just about anything and everything, using its feet to touch every potential food item to see if it tastes good. Fruit, sewage, candy, or rotting garbage; they're all equally delicious to a house fly. In the process of tasting everything, of course, the fly also contacts a multitude of bacteria and viruses.