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Fly control in Missouri

Learn what to look for around your property, explore your city, and ask about an inspection or a quote.

Flies in Missouri: what to know

Around Missouri

Conditions vary across the state. Choose your city below, then describe what’s happening around your home or business.

What to note

Where you see flies, how long it has been going on, and anything you’ve already tried are the most useful details to mention.

A useful next step

Ask about an inspection, what treatment would involve, and whether follow-up visits are included. You don’t need to identify the problem yourself before getting in touch.

Local research

Flies in Missouri: what the public record shows

Before you compare quotes, it helps to know which flies actually live in Missouri, when they are busiest, and what the state figures look like. Everything below links to the agency or university page it came from.

House fly, blow fly, fruit fly, phorid fly, moth (drain) fly, face fly, cluster fly, flesh fly, stable fly and fungus gnat

Fly species covered in MU Extension's household fly guide

Missouri homeowners can match the fly they are seeing to a specific breeding source instead of spraying blind.

University of Missouri Extension

House fly about 14 days; blow fly 10 to 20 days; fruit fly 10 to 12 days; moth fly 8 to 22 days; face fly 12 to 16 days; stable fly 15 to 20 days; cluster fly typically 30 to 40 days

Development time by species

The species tells you how fast the population rebounds after you clean up the source, and the cluster fly's slow cycle is why its numbers build across a whole season rather than a week.

University of Missouri Extension

"When adult flies emerge in late summer/early fall, they may enter human structures as to pass winter."

Cluster fly entry into Missouri homes

Missouri cluster fly complaints are a late-summer and fall exclusion problem, and sealing has to happen before the flies are already inside the wall voids.

University of Missouri Extension

Fly species recorded in Missouri

House fly (Musca domestica) — Non-biting; breeds in manure, garbage, lawn clippings, decaying produce. 45 days at 60°F to 7 days at 95°F. Carries bacteria and viruses causing diarrhea, cholera, food poisonin…
Stable fly (Stomoxys calcitrans) — Biting fly with bayonet-like proboscis; about 12 days egg to adult; peaks early summer.

When flies are busiest in Missouri

MU Extension reports that cluster fly adults emerge in late summer and early fall and then enter structures to overwinter; MU livestock guidance advises starting oral larvicides for cattle flies in the spring.

MU Extension recommends a hierarchy for household flies: sanitation first, then barriers, traps and physical removal, with insecticides as a last resort.

For context, nationally

About 45 days at 60°F; 7 days at 95°F — House fly life cycle vs temperature. Texas A&M AgriLife Extension
75–150 per cluster; 350 to 900 in a lifetime — House fly eggs per female. University of New Hampshire Extension

Sources: University of Missouri Extension; Texas A&M AgriLife Extension; University of New Hampshire Extension; Flies (Home and Landscape). Figures are quoted as the source prints them. How we check our sources

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Fly control in Missouri

Flies in Missouri: what to know

Around Missouri

What to note

A useful next step

Flies in Missouri: what the public record shows

Fly species recorded in Missouri

When flies are busiest in Missouri

For context, nationally

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