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... suck the vegetable juices , and also to take any microscopic animals they may encounter - a habit that we have met before . Since Cecidomyiid larvae have such tiny , insignificant mouth- parts , it has been a puzzle how they could feed ...
... suck the vegetable juices , and also to take any microscopic animals they may encounter - a habit that we have met before . Since Cecidomyiid larvae have such tiny , insignificant mouth- parts , it has been a puzzle how they could feed ...
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... suck the blood of warm - blooded animals : Culicoides , Lasiohelea , and Leptoconops . Most genera suck the juices of flowers , or feed upon other small insects near their own size , including non - biting midges and small mayflies ...
... suck the blood of warm - blooded animals : Culicoides , Lasiohelea , and Leptoconops . Most genera suck the juices of flowers , or feed upon other small insects near their own size , including non - biting midges and small mayflies ...
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... suck blood , with a mechanism similar to that of the horse- flies , and with much the same technique . Bloodsucking by females of Spaniopsis in Australia has been ob- served too often to be doubted , and has been reported to occur also ...
... suck blood , with a mechanism similar to that of the horse- flies , and with much the same technique . Bloodsucking by females of Spaniopsis in Australia has been ob- served too often to be doubted , and has been reported to occur also ...
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THE PATTERN OF FLIES 3 | 3 |
THE LIFEHISTORY OF FLIES | 12 |
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