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... animal , and vegetable substances in different degrees of decomposition , excrements of animals , and in fes- tered wounds of animals and plants . They are met with as scavengers in the nests of mammals , birds , wasps , bees , ants ...
... animal , and vegetable substances in different degrees of decomposition , excrements of animals , and in fes- tered wounds of animals and plants . They are met with as scavengers in the nests of mammals , birds , wasps , bees , ants ...
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... animals . An extreme instance is the oft - quoted census made in Rumania , Bulgaria , and Yugoslavia in the year 1923 , where nearly 20,000 domestic animals , horses , cattle , sheep , and goats , are said to have been killed , along ...
... animals . An extreme instance is the oft - quoted census made in Rumania , Bulgaria , and Yugoslavia in the year 1923 , where nearly 20,000 domestic animals , horses , cattle , sheep , and goats , are said to have been killed , along ...
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... animals , but apparently they do not take blood from open wounds , as the horse - flies do . Nor do they take plant food , in spite of reports to the contrary . None is restricted to one particular host animal , but most of them show ...
... animals , but apparently they do not take blood from open wounds , as the horse - flies do . Nor do they take plant food , in spite of reports to the contrary . None is restricted to one particular host animal , but most of them show ...
Contents
THE PATTERN OF FLIES 3 | 3 |
THE LIFEHISTORY OF FLIES | 12 |
Part | 27 |
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abdomen able actively adapted adult adult flies African already animals appearance aquatic areas attack attracted become birds biting blood body breed called carnivorous carried cause Chapter close common countries crane-flies developed difficult disease effect eggs emerge evolution evolved example eyes fact feeding female Figure flies flight flowers genera genus give gnats habit habitats head horse-flies host human insects interesting known larvae later leaves legs less live look males mass materials mating mentioned midges mosquitoes move natural nearly nests occur organic parasites particularly perhaps plants present prey primitive probably proboscis pupae recent rest robber-flies round seems seen similar skin soil sometimes species spiracles stage structure suck suggests surface swarms tion tissues tropical true usually vegetation wings