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Page viii
... blow - flies : ( a ) laid among the hairs of a dead mole ; ( b ) removed from the eye of a human corpse ( between pages 232 and 233 ] 25 Part of a human thigh , at the stage where larvae of Piophila nigriceps feed on it . 26 Flies ...
... blow - flies : ( a ) laid among the hairs of a dead mole ; ( b ) removed from the eye of a human corpse ( between pages 232 and 233 ] 25 Part of a human thigh , at the stage where larvae of Piophila nigriceps feed on it . 26 Flies ...
Page viii
... blow - flies : ( a ) laid among the hairs of a dead mole ; ( b ) removed from the eye of a human corpse [ between pages 232 and 233 ] 25 Part of a human thigh , at the stage where larvae of Piophila nigriceps feed on it . 26 Flies ...
... blow - flies : ( a ) laid among the hairs of a dead mole ; ( b ) removed from the eye of a human corpse [ between pages 232 and 233 ] 25 Part of a human thigh , at the stage where larvae of Piophila nigriceps feed on it . 26 Flies ...
Page 215
... blown ' meat , helps the process by concentrating the alkali from their com- bined droppings . Larvae of blow - flies will attack cooked meats , and those that have been frozen and thawed out , but they lose interest in a natural corpse ...
... blown ' meat , helps the process by concentrating the alkali from their com- bined droppings . Larvae of blow - flies will attack cooked meats , and those that have been frozen and thawed out , but they lose interest in a natural corpse ...
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THE PATTERN OF FLIES 3 | 3 |
THE LIFEHISTORY OF FLIES | 12 |
Part | 27 |
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