Survey of Adult flesh flies (Family: Sarcophagidae) in Some Iraqi provinces By Using Sticky trap

Abstract

The aims of this study are to identify the adults of flesh  flies that attract  to the yellow sticky traps and studying  prevalence of these species in some Iraq provinces. The results showed that  Sarcophaga africa    ( Wiedemann)   was the most abundant species caught in all studied  provinces during  November 2010, and highly occurrence of all studying species was 37.5% in Baghdad , the lowest was 1.5% in Missan in this month; while it was in Nijef , Babylon ,and Diyala are : 24.2 , 19.1 and 17.7 in sequences  .