Not just bees and butterflies: Beetles and other brilliant bugs are nature's unsung pollinators
About 90% of flowering plants rely on animals to transfer their pollen and optimize reproduction, making pollination one of ...
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Flies: The compelling case for why they’re actually fabulous
Their larvae are cleaning up after us and the adults are pollinating ... Erica explains, 'The true flies group, called Diptera, has taken its basic body plan - three pairs of legs, a pair of wings, a ...
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An Automated System for Collection and Counting of Parasitized Leafminer (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Larvae
Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. The Florida Entomologist Vol. 79, No. 3, Sep., 1996 An Automated System for Collection and C ...
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Introduction to myiasis
Diptera causing myiasis in man ... Maggot therapy: a review of the therapeutic applications of fly larvae in human medicine, especially for treating osteomyelitis. Medical and Veterinary Entomology 2, ...
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Nine actually quite gross facts to swot up about flies (and other winged things)
Joining Robin and Brian to discuss the merits of the diptera family are ... an infestation of larvae in the body. Maggots on cheese. Image source: Getty. Flies don’t have jaws and so they ...
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The Ecology of Carrion Decomposition
Blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae ... the adult female lays several hundred eggs that hatch into larvae, or maggots. Larvae pass through three instars before becoming pupae.
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The Bromeliad Catopsis berteroniana Traps Terrestrial Arthropods but Harbors Wyeomyia larvae (Diptera: Culicidae)
In Everglades National Park (Florida, USA), larvae, pupae, and pupal exuviae of Wyeomyia vanduzeei and Wyeomyia mitchellii were found in water held in leaf axils of C. berteroniana. Thus, despite its ...