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... Breeding - places divide broadly into permanent water and tempo- rary accumulations , and this makes a basic cleavage through the family . Those which breed in permanent water have life - histories geared to the slow rhythm of the ...
... Breeding - places divide broadly into permanent water and tempo- rary accumulations , and this makes a basic cleavage through the family . Those which breed in permanent water have life - histories geared to the slow rhythm of the ...
Page 150
... breed from the corpses of small mam- mals and birds , a great many others breed from fungi . The conditions . of mushroom cultivation are just what Phorids like , and one species in particular , Megaselia halterata , has been a pest of ...
... breed from the corpses of small mam- mals and birds , a great many others breed from fungi . The conditions . of mushroom cultivation are just what Phorids like , and one species in particular , Megaselia halterata , has been a pest of ...
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... breed in decaying vegetable matter , leaf - mould and so on . Those of Halidayella ( or Calliopum ) aenea mine in the leaves of clover , and make a gall in the flowers of Viola . The adults are mostly soft - bodied , plump little flies ...
... breed in decaying vegetable matter , leaf - mould and so on . Those of Halidayella ( or Calliopum ) aenea mine in the leaves of clover , and make a gall in the flowers of Viola . The adults are mostly soft - bodied , plump little flies ...
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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