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2. Fly - Wikipedia

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   This leads to flies having more reproduction abilities than most insects, and much quicker. Flies occur in large populations due to their ability to mate effectively and quickly during the mating season. [35] More primitive groups mates in the air during swarming, but most of the more advanced species with a 360° torsion mate on a substrate. [73]

3. Maggot - Wikipedia

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   Maggots feeding on an opossum carrion Maggots on a porcupine carcass Maggots from a rabbit. Common wild pig (boar) corpse decomposition timelapse. Maggots are visible. A maggot is the larva of a fly (order Diptera); it is applied in particular to the larvae of Brachycera flies, such as houseflies, cheese flies, and blowflies, [1] rather than larvae of the Nematocera, such as mosquitoes and ...

4. Drosophila melanogaster - Wikipedia

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   Drosophila melanogaster is a species of fly (an insect of the order Diptera) in the family Drosophilidae.The species is often referred to as the fruit fly or lesser fruit fly, or less commonly the "vinegar fly", "pomace fly", [a] [5] or "banana fly". [6]

5. Biology of Diptera - Wikipedia

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   Other flower feeding Brachycerous families are Empididae, Stratiomyidae (soldier flies) and the Acroceridae like various members of the Nemestrinidae (tangle-veined flies), Bombyliidae (bee flies) and Tabanidae (horse-fly) are nectar feeders with exceptionally long proboscises, sometimes longer than the entire bodily length of the insect.

6. Housefly - Wikipedia

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   Emily Dickinson's 1855 poem "I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died" speaks of flies in the context of death. [76] In William Golding's 1954 novel Lord of the Flies, the fly is, however, a symbol of the children involved. [77] Ogden Nash's humorous two-line 1942 poem "God in His wisdom made the fly/And then forgot to tell us why." indicates the debate ...

7. Calliphora vomitoria - Wikipedia

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   Calliphora vomitoria, known as the blue bottle fly, [3] orange-bearded blue bottle, [4] or bottlebee, is a species of blow fly, a species in the family Calliphoridae. Calliphora vomitoria is the type species of the genus Calliphora .

8. Gnat - Wikipedia

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   The larvae develop into pupae and then into adults. Adults live only long enough to reproduce and they may form large mating swarms, often around dusk. The life cycle generally takes 4-5 weeks. [1] The larvae of most gall gnats (Cecidomyiidae), such as the Hessian fly larva, form galls in flowers, leaves, stems, roots or other plant parts. [8]

9. Flightless fruit fly - Wikipedia

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   Flightless fruit flies (Order Diptera) encompass a variety of different species of fly, such as Drosophila melanogaster, Bactrocera cucurbitae, ...