Flies
(See Fly.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Flies from Fact Monster:
- wheat fly - wheat fly wheat fly, name for several insects harmful to wheat, e.g., the Hessian fly, the wheat ...
- eye fly - eye fly eye fly, common name for a group of small flies of the family Chloropidae. Eye flies are ...
- bee fly - bee fly bee fly, name for the small- to medium-sized flies of the family Bombyliidae, many of which ...
- tsetse fly - tsetse fly tsetse fly , name for any of several bloodsucking African flies of the genus Glossina, ...
- ichneumon fly - ichneumon fly ichneumon fly , common name for a family of insects, related to the wasps, whose ...
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