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sand fly
(Encyclopedia)sand fly: see midge.shad fly
(Encyclopedia)shad fly: see mayfly.greenbottle fly
(Encyclopedia)greenbottle fly: see blowfly.harvest fly
(Encyclopedia)harvest fly: see cicada.warble fly
(Encyclopedia)warble fly: see botfly.bluebottle fly
(Encyclopedia)bluebottle fly: see blowfly.Spanish fly
(Encyclopedia)Spanish fly: see blister beetle. ...eye fly
(Encyclopedia)eye fly, common name for a group of small flies of the family Chloropidae. Eye flies are common in parts of California and in the S United States. They inhabit grasslands and meadows and breed mainly ...Hessian fly
(Encyclopedia)Hessian fly, European gall gnat, Phytophaga destructor, so named because it was first observed in America shortly after the Hessian troops landed on Long Island in the American Revolution. It is one o...ichneumon fly
(Encyclopedia)ichneumon fly ĭkno͞oˈmən [key], common name for a family of insects, related to the wasps, whose larvae are parasitic on many other insects. Over 3,000 species of ichneumon flies, also known as ic...Browse by Subject
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