Nuisance flies around a landfill: Patterns of abundance and distribution

摘要

Some members of the public living near landfills per- ceive the sites as a source of nuisance flies and their associated diseases. Both these factors contribute to fre- quent complaints to Environmental Health Officers about landfill operations. Fly monitoring using sticky targets was done at a working landfill site in the West Midlands in order to identify the key species of flies pre- Sent at the site, and to establish whether these flies were Similar to those occurring in the surrounding area. Targets were positioned in concentric rings, radiating Away from the working face into the surrounding resi- Dential area. The abundance of the flies, both in and Around the landfill site was monitored over a 6-week Perion commencing 16 August 1999.