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... sub - family sucks the blood of vertebrate animals . Sycorax silacea has been reported to attack the edible frog in France , where this frog is specially subject to observation , and the fly may transmit a parasitic worm . But in the ...
... sub - family sucks the blood of vertebrate animals . Sycorax silacea has been reported to attack the edible frog in France , where this frog is specially subject to observation , and the fly may transmit a parasitic worm . But in the ...
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... sub - family Culicinae of the family Culicidae . Entomologically , then mosquitoes are just part of one of almost a hundred families into which flies are divided . We have already briefly mentioned the other two sub- families of ...
... sub - family Culicinae of the family Culicidae . Entomologically , then mosquitoes are just part of one of almost a hundred families into which flies are divided . We have already briefly mentioned the other two sub- families of ...
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... family . If Downes ' view is to be accepted , then bloodsucking is a primitive habit , and its loss an evolutionary ... sub - family , the Vermileoninae , have gone in for flower - feeding , and have developed a long , slender , probing ...
... family . If Downes ' view is to be accepted , then bloodsucking is a primitive habit , and its loss an evolutionary ... sub - family , the Vermileoninae , have gone in for flower - feeding , and have developed a long , slender , probing ...
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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