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Page 47
... suck the vegetable juices , and also to take any microscopic animals they may encounter – a habit that we have met before . - Since Cecidomyiid larvae have such tiny , insignificant mouth- parts , it has been a puzzle how they could ...
... suck the vegetable juices , and also to take any microscopic animals they may encounter – a habit that we have met before . - Since Cecidomyiid larvae have such tiny , insignificant mouth- parts , it has been a puzzle how they could ...
Page 55
... suck the blood of warm - blooded animals : Culicoides , Lasiohelea , and Leptoconops . Most genera suck the juices of flowers , or feed upon other small insects near their own size , including non - biting midges and small mayflies ...
... suck the blood of warm - blooded animals : Culicoides , Lasiohelea , and Leptoconops . Most genera suck the juices of flowers , or feed upon other small insects near their own size , including non - biting midges and small mayflies ...
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... suck blood , with a mechanism similar to that of the horse- flies , and with much the same technique . Bloodsucking by females of Spaniopsis in Australia has been ob- served too often to be doubted , and has been reported to occur also ...
... suck blood , with a mechanism similar to that of the horse- flies , and with much the same technique . Bloodsucking by females of Spaniopsis in Australia has been ob- served too often to be doubted , and has been reported to occur also ...
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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