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... tissue . There is perhaps a distinction to be made between the act of drawing blood from a capillary or from a pool in lacerated tissues , and that of feeding on the tissues themselves . The bloodsucker is a true parasite , living at ...
... tissue . There is perhaps a distinction to be made between the act of drawing blood from a capillary or from a pool in lacerated tissues , and that of feeding on the tissues themselves . The bloodsucker is a true parasite , living at ...
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... tissue . A newly dead body develops rigor mortis , a condition in which the tissues are acid , and then not digestible by the larva . At first the larvae feed on the fluid serum between the muscle fibres , meanwhile discharging their ...
... tissue . A newly dead body develops rigor mortis , a condition in which the tissues are acid , and then not digestible by the larva . At first the larvae feed on the fluid serum between the muscle fibres , meanwhile discharging their ...
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... tissues of a particular host ; semispecific larvae that mostly live in decaying animal , or even vegetable matter , but will sometimes attack living tissues ; and acci- dental myiasis by a miscellany of flies whose larvae find their way ...
... tissues of a particular host ; semispecific larvae that mostly live in decaying animal , or even vegetable matter , but will sometimes attack living tissues ; and acci- dental myiasis by a miscellany of flies whose larvae find their way ...
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THE PATTERN OF FLIES 32 | 3 |
THE LIFEHISTORY OF FLIES | 12 |
CRANEFLIES | 29 |
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abdomen acalyptrate actively adapted adult flies African Agromyzidae animals appearance aquatic larvae Asilidae attack bats bee-flies bees behaviour biological birds biting black-flies blood bloodsucking blow-flies body Bombyliidae Brachycera breed Calliphora carnivorous Cecidomyiidae Chapter Chironomidae Chloropidae Chrysops crane-flies Cyclorrhapha decaying developed Diptera disease Dolichopodidae dung egg-laying eggs emerge Empididae Empids Ephydridae evolution evolutionary evolved eyes families of flies female flight flowers genera genus gnats habit habitats head Hippoboscidae horse-flies host hover-flies hovering insects known large numbers larvae larvae feed larvae live legs Lucilia maggot males mammals mandibles mating midges mosquitoes mouthparts Muscidae Mycetophilidae Nematocera nests non-biting Nycteribiidae organic oxygen parasites perhaps Phorids piercing plants prey primitive proboscis pupae pupal pupate robber-flies seen Simulium skin soil sometimes species spiracles stage Stratiomyidae Streblidae sub-family suck surface swarms Syrphid Syrphidae Tabanidae Tabanus terrestrial thorax tion tissues tropical Trypetidae tsetse-flies vegetation wasps wings