Talk:Cluster fly

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The organism for this wikipedia fly is the Cluster fly or Pollenia. The strengths of this page are that it includes a helpful image and it also includes an interesting short video of the Cluster fly. At least 3 general categories in this article are missing and I base these recommendations on the article for Calliphoridae (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliphoridae). They are: development, food sources, and predators. Each of these categories create a fuller picture about what distinguishes the cluster flies from others physically, scavenging, and predation. More detail on predation can give context about Cluster fley behavior. This Wikipedia page appears to be incomplete, however. It has very little detail about the cluster fly. There are too few references (only two total) and none of them are included inside of the text. The claim that cluster flies “do not present a health hazard because they do not lay eggs in human food” should be substantiated by verified evidence and cited in-text. Also, describing cluster flies as a “nuisance” is biased because it is a subjective description of how a fly seems to a human rather than an objective description of what the fly is itself. Further, the grammar itself is sometimes nonsensical. For example, the page states that the cluster fly is “parasitic on earthworms,” whent the correct wording would be that it is “parasitic to earthworms.” A short revision would be sufficient to improve the grammar in this article. Chickfilkay (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 23:40, 17 September 2019 (UTC)

Have changed it to "parasitise earthworms" which seems to me to be most correct.

I would add that I wasn't taught to be concerned about the health risk from flies due to their laying eggs in human food (though obviously that would be a problem) but because they have indiscrimate feeding habits. That is, they will walk around in a toilet feeding on faeces and then land on food, spreading "germs" on their feet and in their saliva. Saying a fly isn't a health risk in the former way doesn't have any implications as to the health risk or otherwise from the latter. Perhaps this page is in need of attention from someone who has a reasonable knowledge of the literature and can comment on the sense or otherwise of this, and reference it properly?

Otherwise, I think the "not hazardous to human health" statement might reasonably be removed.

Finally, the list could do with geographical organisation or something: I was looking for the British cluster fly/flies, and that is a long list to sort through...

:-)

FloweringOctopus (talk) 15:27, 12 August 2023 (UTC)