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Page 32
... habit , and the associated trick of choosing spiders ' webs as places from which to hang . Miss Evelyn Cheesman , in her book on Hunting Insects in the South Seas , speaks with admiration of the crane - fly Doaneomyia tahitiensis which ...
... habit , and the associated trick of choosing spiders ' webs as places from which to hang . Miss Evelyn Cheesman , in her book on Hunting Insects in the South Seas , speaks with admiration of the crane - fly Doaneomyia tahitiensis which ...
Page 47
... habit of feeding in rotting vegetable matter , and in dung . Some are feeders in fungus , especially fungoid growths covering other plants or woodwork , in moulds , mosses and liverwort . Featureless larvae of a pink colour should be ...
... habit of feeding in rotting vegetable matter , and in dung . Some are feeders in fungus , especially fungoid growths covering other plants or woodwork , in moulds , mosses and liverwort . Featureless larvae of a pink colour should be ...
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... habit , and its loss an evolutionary advance , and this is supported by the sporadic way in which it persists , remaining as a regular habit only in Australian flies that probably represent a primitive line , as they do in Tabanidae ...
... habit , and its loss an evolutionary advance , and this is supported by the sporadic way in which it persists , remaining as a regular habit only in Australian flies that probably represent a primitive line , as they do in Tabanidae ...
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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