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Casu marzu is a traditional Sardinian sheep milk cheese that contains larvae of the cheese fly, Piophila casei. Some species of maggots such as blowfly larvae (gentles) and bluebottle larvae are bred commercially; they are sold as bait in angling, and as food for carnivorous animals (kept as pets, in zoos, or for research) such as some mammals ...
Species with shorter proboscis do land and walk on flower heads, however, and can be much harder to distinguish from hoverflies in the field. As noted, many bee fly species spend regular time intervals at rest on or near the ground, while hoverflies hardly ever do so.
The family Syrphidae consists of more than 6000 living species of hoverfly. The internal taxonomy of the family and the number of genera varies greatly between sources leading to considerable discrepancy across the literature. This is currently in the process of reorganization on the basis of phylogenetic studies but knowledge is still ...
Neoascia tenur (Harris, 1780) [41] The Black-kneed Fen Fly is a common species that was formerly considered to be only European now considered to be throughout North America and Canada. [3] N. unifasciata (Strobl, 1898) [42] Neoascia willistoni Thompson, 1986
The fly species was first found in California in 1960 and has been reintroduced every year since 1966 by infested fruits and vegetables coming into the state.
Sinclair said he’s described more than 400 fly species in his career so far, but an “endless stream” of others wait to be identified. “Even in North America, I find, when I do a study ...
The housefly (Musca domestica) is a fly of the suborder Cyclorrhapha. It possibly originated in the Middle East, and spread around the world as a commensal of humans. It is the most common fly species found in houses. Adults are gray to black, with four dark, longitudinal lines on the thorax, slightly hairy bodies, and a single pair of ...
Fredrik Sjöberg's book The Fly Trap concerns his enthusiasm for hoverflies on the island of Runmarö in the Baltic Sea. [33] The island is a hotspot for hoverflies and other insects; Sjöberg has collected 58 species of butterflies there, and (in seven years of hunting) 202 species of hoverflies, including 180 in his garden. [34]