PARASITOLOGY PRACTICAL - FLIES
Learning outcomes
In the practical spot examination you are likely to be asked to identify and comment on one or more specimens of flies. These will be in a flask under a stereomicroscope, or on a microscope slide, or a photograph. You will be given some clinical history of use in identification and asked about importance in disease, host specificity, life cycle etc.
Important flies to differentiate:
Stable fly, Stomoxys, all life cycle stages,
Blowflies, Calliphora and Lucilia, larva, pupa and adults,
House fly type, Musca,
Biting midges, Culicoides,
Horse flies or tabanids, eg Tabanus
Keds or louse flies, eg Melophagus
Bot flies, eg. Oestrus and Gasterophilus
Note that you only need to learn genus and vernacular names as given on the practical handouts. You have not been given sufficient detail to make a reasonable identification to species level of any of these flies.
Demonstration material- Musca, Calliphora, Stomoxys, Culicoides
- Mosquito, Tabanus, Melophagus
- Lucilia, Oestrus, Gasterophilius, Hypoderma