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... difficult to accept this view . A progress from compost - feeding , via dung and carrion , to final parasitism seems more plausible . Mr C. E. Dyte has suggested to me that the maggot may be an example of pre - adaptation , as discussed ...
... difficult to accept this view . A progress from compost - feeding , via dung and carrion , to final parasitism seems more plausible . Mr C. E. Dyte has suggested to me that the maggot may be an example of pre - adaptation , as discussed ...
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... difficult . The intestine is full of it , and the carnivorous larva lives , as it were , on a diet of sardines in oil . The oil is believed not to be digested , but is kept away from the lining of the intestine by the peritrophic mem ...
... difficult . The intestine is full of it , and the carnivorous larva lives , as it were , on a diet of sardines in oil . The oil is believed not to be digested , but is kept away from the lining of the intestine by the peritrophic mem ...
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... difficult either to catch or to breed the adults , and until this has been done the larvae are difficult to classify . Dr Zumpt , indeed , rightly urges that names should not be given to newly discovered species until adults as well as ...
... difficult either to catch or to breed the adults , and until this has been done the larvae are difficult to classify . Dr Zumpt , indeed , rightly urges that names should not be given to newly discovered species until adults as well as ...
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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