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... female is a worm - like creature , without wings , and with vestigial legs , like the females of the Streblid fly Ascodipteron ( plate 27 ) . The female Pontomyia stays put , and waits for the male to visit her , whereas the female ...
... female is a worm - like creature , without wings , and with vestigial legs , like the females of the Streblid fly Ascodipteron ( plate 27 ) . The female Pontomyia stays put , and waits for the male to visit her , whereas the female ...
Page 84
... female on the other , with one biting mandible and maxilla instead of a pair of each . Such flies seem to be partly female in instincts as well as in structure . Yet , apart from this explanation , males and non - biting females may be ...
... female on the other , with one biting mandible and maxilla instead of a pair of each . Such flies seem to be partly female in instincts as well as in structure . Yet , apart from this explanation , males and non - biting females may be ...
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... female Empid - like the female of the praying mantis – is apt to seize and eat her mate , and that he diverts her compulsive eating from himself by offering her some other food . Though this may have been the origin of the habit ...
... female Empid - like the female of the praying mantis – is apt to seize and eat her mate , and that he diverts her compulsive eating from himself by offering her some other food . Though this may have been the origin of the habit ...
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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