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... female is a worm - like creature , without wings , and with vestigial legs , like the females of the Streblid fly Ascodipteron ( plate 27 ) . The female Pontomyia stays put , and waits for the male to visit her , whereas the female ...
... female is a worm - like creature , without wings , and with vestigial legs , like the females of the Streblid fly Ascodipteron ( plate 27 ) . The female Pontomyia stays put , and waits for the male to visit her , whereas the female ...
Page 84
... female on the other , with one biting mandible and maxilla instead of a pair of each . Such flies seem to be partly female in instincts as well as in structure . Yet , apart from this explanation , males and non - biting females may be ...
... female on the other , with one biting mandible and maxilla instead of a pair of each . Such flies seem to be partly female in instincts as well as in structure . Yet , apart from this explanation , males and non - biting females may be ...
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... female Empid - like the female of the praying mantis - is apt to seize and eat her mate , and that he diverts her compulsive eating from himself by offering her some other food . Though this may have been the origin of the habit ...
... female Empid - like the female of the praying mantis - is apt to seize and eat her mate , and that he diverts her compulsive eating from himself by offering her some other food . Though this may have been the origin of the habit ...
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THE PATTERN OF FLIES 3 | 3 |
THE LIFEHISTORY OF FLIES | 12 |
Part | 27 |
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