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A fly is a very common <a href="/creepy-crawlies">insect</a> that can fly, as the name suggests. Flies lay their <a href="/e/egg">eggs</a> in rotting food or dead animals in the wild, and in your <a href="/h/house">house</a> they lay their eggs in any of your food that they find. The eggs <a href="/h/hatch">hatch</a> into <a href="/m/maggot">maggots</a>.
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Insects
Scientific name: order: diptera
A fly is a very common
insect
that can fly, as the name suggests. Flies lay their
eggs
in rotting food or dead animals in the wild, and in your
house
they lay their eggs in any of your food that they find. The eggs
hatch
into
maggots
.
John Talbot
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