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... life , though , as I shall point out from time to time , most of these larvae really live in a marginal Figure 9. The ovipositor of a robber - fly , compressed and strengthened until it will cut into the stems of plants and push an egg ...
... life , though , as I shall point out from time to time , most of these larvae really live in a marginal Figure 9. The ovipositor of a robber - fly , compressed and strengthened until it will cut into the stems of plants and push an egg ...
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... larvae orange . Its larvae live in wet soil , and on the margins of salt lakes as well as of tidal waters . The ' terrestrial ' group of biting midges , as we have seen , is really an offshoot of the aquatic ones , and its larvae live ...
... larvae orange . Its larvae live in wet soil , and on the margins of salt lakes as well as of tidal waters . The ' terrestrial ' group of biting midges , as we have seen , is really an offshoot of the aquatic ones , and its larvae live ...
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... larvae and adults are living on external secretions , but some Phorid larvae ... live as scavengers or commensals in the nests of ants , bees , wasps and ... larvae raid the food - stores in nests , includ- ing the fungus - gardens of ...
... larvae and adults are living on external secretions , but some Phorid larvae ... live as scavengers or commensals in the nests of ants , bees , wasps and ... larvae raid the food - stores in nests , includ- ing the fungus - gardens of ...
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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