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... decaying vegetable matter of a compost - like nature , occasionally damaging stored root - crops and tubers . As we shall see , this habit is characteristic of the group of Nematocera centring round the Mycetophilidae , the ' land ...
... decaying vegetable matter of a compost - like nature , occasionally damaging stored root - crops and tubers . As we shall see , this habit is characteristic of the group of Nematocera centring round the Mycetophilidae , the ' land ...
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... decaying wood and so on , but are best known as feeding on the damaged tissues of plants that have already been attacked by other Chloropidae such as the frit fly . Some other species of Oscinella do the same thing , so that in this one ...
... decaying wood and so on , but are best known as feeding on the damaged tissues of plants that have already been attacked by other Chloropidae such as the frit fly . Some other species of Oscinella do the same thing , so that in this one ...
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... decaying vegetable matter , 172 on seashore , 145 Ceratopogonid larvae in , 57 decaying wood , 18 , 34 , 39 deer - 306 INDEX.
... decaying vegetable matter , 172 on seashore , 145 Ceratopogonid larvae in , 57 decaying wood , 18 , 34 , 39 deer - 306 INDEX.
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THE PATTERN OF FLIES 3 | 3 |
THE LIFEHISTORY OF FLIES | 12 |
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