Musca domestica
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The Common House Fly (German: Stubenfliege) is not as common as you may think. There are many flies who like to hang out in apartments, such as the very large Calliphora vicina. The Common House Fly is only around 7mm in length, has a beige to yellow abdomen, red eyes and very few hair on its body. If the fly you are trying to identify is completely black, blue or dark green or very furry, it is not a Common House Fly.
William Blake
"The Fly"
Little Fly
Thy summers play,
My thoughtless hand
Has brush'd away.
Am not I
A fly like thee?
Or art not thou
A man like me?
For I dance
And drink & sing:
Till some blind hand
Shall brush my wing.
If thought is life
And strength & breath:
And the want
Of thought is death;
Then am I
A happy fly,
If I live,
Or if I die.
"Songs of Experience" (1794)[1]
