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Not just bees and butterflies: Beetles and other brilliant bugs are nature's unsung pollinators
An estimated 30,000 species of fly (Diptera) call Australia home ... Hover flies are potential pollinators of several native ...
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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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Biology and Behavior of Pseudacteon Decapitating Flies (Diptera: Phoridae) That Parasitize Solenopsis Fire Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
https://doi.org/10.2307/3495920 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/3495920 Larvae of phorid flies in the genus Pseudacteon have the unusual habit of decapitating fire ...
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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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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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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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On the Correlation of Habit in Nemoscerous and Brachycerous Diptera between Aquatic Larvæ and Blood Sucking Adult Females
Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Sep., 1895), pp. 134-136 (3 pages) ...