Said to be a fly but not a fly in general

^{In his stomach there is an enzyme that is often called cellulase, as a tool to break down waste in places where there is a lot of garbage, in general it often dominates livestock manure and some other manure as food for himself. For more details knowing about them, please visit the link below 👉 wikipedia.org}

The black Army fly seen in this post, is not as described above, but is seen on the leaves of wild plants that grow in a habitat. Although it looks like it is on a green leaf, it likes to be in a trash can that has the potential to become livestock waste, which is used as feed.

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Do these black Army flies, have the same characteristics as ordinary flies in general, such as house flies, meat flies, and some common flies in general?

At first glance, they both seem to like dirty things, as in the explanation above or in the detailed explanation in the link attached above, so to find out the differences and similarities, see below. Here are some explanations below.

^{1 Both love dirt from any waste or other bad things}

They both like dirt from garbage or other bad things, which is something that is often seen in activities, it turns out that every garbage itself is there to find food, therefore their presence in that location has an impact on the decomposition of waste. Likewise with other types of flies in general, also often like garbage locations, of course, in looking for food as well as breeding in that location. In this case, it can be seen that although they are of different types, they both like the waste location.

^{2 Both chose the same location, in the leaves when finished in one important location}

Observations in the field, both on flies in general and black army flies, when the black army fly finishes landing in a dirty place (waste), then it will land on green leaves. Stopping at the location of the leaves while resting, there is a character that almost resembles, an ordinary character in general. Meanwhile, the character of meat flies or house flies, when after finishing their activities on food scraps, or on rotten meat, and also on any dirty garbage including places that have the potential to contain food. So, then will rest on the green leaves, this character is almost the same as black army flies.

There are still many other similarities that can be seen between the black army fly and ordinary flies in general, but they are not mentioned here, the author only mentions some similarities of zahir behavior seen in everyday life, although if you examine further, of course you will get information which is very important, in every behavior and character, but even though they have the same character, it turns out that there are other distinct differences, if you don't pay attention it is said that the black army fly is not a fly species because of its physical appearance.

^{3. Has the physical difference between an ordinary fly and a black army fly}

In this case, it is clear that there are differences, both in terms of physicality or certain patterns, although there are also some body parts that have similarities but very little. It is very clear that when viewed from a physical point of view, there are differences between each other, as you will see below.

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Number	Black army fly	Ordinary flies
1	Body size is larger and longer, or has a length of 2.5 cm and a width of about 1 cm	Has a size of 5.8 cm
2	Has a physical shape resembling a bee and other venomous insect species	Has a unique body and is different from the species of each insect
3	Dark colors, smooth and distinctive	Dark colors, smooth and distinctive
4	Not too aggressive in every activity (looks a lot quiet in the leaves)	Aggressive when in a feed, and will be very difficult to catch
5	Reflex movements are a little slow according to their ordo	Has a faster instinct in detecting every movement

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While other physical features, such as the head, thorax, abdomen, and other body parts, have almost the same form and function, but look different from all the shapes and positions of the parts.

^{Classification of photo & writing}

In the photo with	VIVO Y12 smartphone
Photo Settings	Otomatis
Camera	Profesional
Photografer	@ashaf
Themes	Said to be a fly but not a fly in general ✉
Text reference	Personal observasi ✎