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A gentle liver-like odor filled the laboratory and welled over to the outside.
Somewhere in the wide acres beyond, an egg- burdened blowfly cruised urgently
about seeking a suitable place to lay her cream-colored cylindrical eggs.
A gentle liver-like odor filled the laboratory and welled over to the outside.
Somewhere in the wide acres beyond, an egg- burdened blowfly cruised urgently
about seeking a suitable place to lay her cream-colored cylindrical eggs.
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Flavor is a mixture of tastes, odors, and textures. With taste alone you are pretty
much restricted to sweet, salt, sour, and bitter. The old adage that one can catch
more flies with honey ^than with vinegar has a sound basis in physiology.
Leaving ...
Flavor is a mixture of tastes, odors, and textures. With taste alone you are pretty
much restricted to sweet, salt, sour, and bitter. The old adage that one can catch
more flies with honey ^than with vinegar has a sound basis in physiology.
Leaving ...
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On the other hand, odors in the air are useful for navigation. Think of the times
you have sought out something burning in the house or a dead house mouse
simply by following your nose. Recently we demonstrated the efficacy of the
method of ...
On the other hand, odors in the air are useful for navigation. Think of the times
you have sought out something burning in the house or a dead house mouse
simply by following your nose. Recently we demonstrated the efficacy of the
method of ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | To know a fly |
| Author | Vincent Gaston Dethier |
| Publisher | Holden-Day, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 26 Feb 2010 |
| Length | 119 pages |
| Subjects | › › › Biological research Biology Flies Insects Nature / Insects & Spiders Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / Entomology |
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