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Harold Oldroyd. Chapter 6 Black - Flies CERTAIN BITING FLIES of this aquatic group are very different in appearance from normal midges and gnats . Instead of being fragile and elongate , they are small and compact , with short , broad ...
Harold Oldroyd. Chapter 6 Black - Flies CERTAIN BITING FLIES of this aquatic group are very different in appearance from normal midges and gnats . Instead of being fragile and elongate , they are small and compact , with short , broad ...
Page 67
... Black - flies are remarkably persistent in their attacks , and they often surround their victim as a milling cloud . The females often fly round one's legs , and settle at about knee - level , and if one is wearing shorts the knees are ...
... Black - flies are remarkably persistent in their attacks , and they often surround their victim as a milling cloud . The females often fly round one's legs , and settle at about knee - level , and if one is wearing shorts the knees are ...
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... flies get their name of ' net - winged midges ' is a consequence of this unseemly haste to get into the air . Other flies ... black - flies , Simuliidae , which have made a much more successful adaptation to life in rather similar conditions ...
... flies get their name of ' net - winged midges ' is a consequence of this unseemly haste to get into the air . Other flies ... black - flies , Simuliidae , which have made a much more successful adaptation to life in rather similar conditions ...
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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