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... Breeding - places divide broadly into permanent water and tempo- rary accumulations , and this makes a basic cleavage through the family . Those which breed in permanent water have life - histories geared to the slow rhythm of the ...
... Breeding - places divide broadly into permanent water and tempo- rary accumulations , and this makes a basic cleavage through the family . Those which breed in permanent water have life - histories geared to the slow rhythm of the ...
Page 150
... breed from the corpses of small mam- mals and birds , a great many others breed from fungi . The conditions of mushroom cultivation are just what Phorids like , and one species in particular , Megaselia halterata , has been a pest of ...
... breed from the corpses of small mam- mals and birds , a great many others breed from fungi . The conditions of mushroom cultivation are just what Phorids like , and one species in particular , Megaselia halterata , has been a pest of ...
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... breed in damp debris will be more difficult , and I think that ' no - see - ums ' and Phlebotomus will plague us much longer than mosquitoes and black - flies . The horse - flies are also difficult to kill at their breeding - sites ...
... breed in damp debris will be more difficult , and I think that ' no - see - ums ' and Phlebotomus will plague us much longer than mosquitoes and black - flies . The horse - flies are also difficult to kill at their breeding - sites ...
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THE PATTERN OF FLIES 3 | 3 |
THE LIFEHISTORY OF FLIES | 12 |
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