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 DROSOPHILA. Apple I.

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ampelophila. }^ in. Pomace or Wine Flv. and live on decaying fruit.

PHORID/C.

Minute

I'Jiora.

Family

Hump-hacJced flies,

Found about wine

Yellowish.

or cider vats,

Flies.

found sometimes on windows, sometimes flving

CESTRID/E.

30.

Fly.

Gud

or

Hot

Large bee-liUe

Flies.

flies

anil

dancing

in

swarms.

with verv small mouths



jiarasitic

animal^!.

CESTRUS. 1.

Sheep Bot

Fly. brown, smooth; body checkered. Lays its eggs in the ^4 in. from there the maggots, when hatched, creep up the passages of the nose and fasten themselves in the chambers of the forehead. '4 in. (Ji. pliobifcr. wing black banded. blaclc chest and tall-end reddisii (/£.

oris.

nostrils of slieep

2.

Bot Fly.











GASTROPMILUS. Horse Bot 1.

G.

t-i/z/i.

'j

in.: pale yellow, spotted witii red



Fly.

chest banded with black



wing

2.

(r.

eggs on the knees of horses the iiatched maggots irritate the horse, which licks the infested spot and gets the maggots into his mouth, and from there they crawl into his stomach where they fasten themselves and stay until full grown, passing out with the excreta. licviiiiirrlioidaUs. red tail. Lavs its eggs on the lips of the horse. y^ in.

3.

Cf.

vctcrinus.

spotted.

It

lays

its

CX/





The Farrier Bot

Flv.

3/8

in.



brown. (60)

Lavs

its

eggs under the throat of the horse.

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