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The Mymaridae, commonly known as fairyflies or fairy wasps, are a family of chalcidoid wasps found in temperate, subtropical, and tropical regions throughout the world. The family contains around 100 genera with 1,400 species.
The male flies compete with wild breed males for females to copulate and thus cause females to lay batches of unfertilized eggs that cannot develop into the larval stage. [citation needed] One prevention method involves removing the environment most favourable to the flies, such as by removal of the tail.
These flies are closely similar to Stomoxys and Haematobia, but are larger and of a paler brown color. Tsetse-flies of both sexes are robust fliers adapted for hunting their hosts during daytime. Male adults support their mating activity with repeated meals of blood from cattle and similar wild bovid hosts, also wild pigs and warthogs are favored.
Thanksgiving cactus or false Christmas cactus (Schlumbergera truncata) is similarly easy-care but has caused some mild reactions like digestive upset in dogs and ataxia (temporary loss of muscle ...
The Turquoise Fairy has turquoise eyes, hair and dress that match. Jingle is a Christmas fairy and is shown to be the smallest of the fairies. She is based on the Christmas Angel in the book series, made obvious when she flies to the top of the Christmas tree and poses as an angel. The Fairy Queen is inspired by Queen Elizabeth I. Her first ...
Fruit Fly BarPro Fly Strips This product "guarantees" the elimination of fruit flies, along with cockroaches, spider mites, gnats, mosquitoes, and silverfish. Its time-release technology works for ...
The Evergreen State is full of beautiful, delicious wild plants. It’s also full of toxic lookalikes. Wild berry picking season: Here are WA state’s common toxic and poisonous wild berries
The genus was named after the fairy Tinker Bell in the 1904 play Peter and Wendy (a.k.a. Peter Pan) by J.M. Barrie, and the specific epithet nana refers to a dog in the same story, as well as referencing the Greek word for a dwarf. [1]