Fly (Books)

Flies are insects mentioned briefly in the How to Train Your Dragon Book series.

Description
Flies are insects belonging to the Order Diptera, which encompasses at least 125,000 known species across all continents except Antarctica. They inhabit diverse ecological niches ranging from parasites to pollinators. Diet is equally diverse, ranging from nectar and fruit to the living flesh of vertebrate animals. Diet and environment may even vary within a species, depending on what part of the lifecycle the individual is in. Some adults don't eat anything. Fly larvae - commonly called maggots - eat their species-respective diet voraciously to sustain them through several larval stages and into pupal stage, before adulthood.

The most commonly recognized fly species may be the Housefly. Thought to have originated in the Middle East, houseflies have followed humans all over the world. They dine on any food item, feces, or garbage. Houseflies may also be vectors for human and other animal diseases such as Giardia, Cholera, and even Anthrax.

How to Be a Pirate
When Alvin the poor-but-honest farmer is first discovered in the coffin of Grimbeard the Ghastly, the Hooligans think he is a corpse. However, Hiccup astutely notices that "the face was all slimy and drippy, but it wasn't crawling with maggots or anything disgusting."