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... Gnats ( Sub - Order Nematocera ) And the gnats are on the wing Wheeling round in airy ring MARY HOWITT The expression ' midges and gnats ' conjures up a picture of a swarm of tiny , fragile creatures , of the individually insignificant ...
... Gnats ( Sub - Order Nematocera ) And the gnats are on the wing Wheeling round in airy ring MARY HOWITT The expression ' midges and gnats ' conjures up a picture of a swarm of tiny , fragile creatures , of the individually insignificant ...
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... gnats , including the mosquitoes . It is not quite accurate to call the first group terrestrial and the second aqua ... gnats , but the common English names of families are quite inconsistent in this respect . Thus gall - midges and ...
... gnats , including the mosquitoes . It is not quite accurate to call the first group terrestrial and the second aqua ... gnats , but the common English names of families are quite inconsistent in this respect . Thus gall - midges and ...
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... gnats . Instead of being fragile and elongate , they are small and compact , with short , broad wings which are ... gnats , or turkey - gnats , of the family Simuliidae . Only the females suck blood , and not those of every species ...
... gnats . Instead of being fragile and elongate , they are small and compact , with short , broad wings which are ... gnats , or turkey - gnats , of the family Simuliidae . Only the females suck blood , and not those of every species ...
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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