Dipterocecidium: a gall formed by a dipterous insect. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Extended notes on various dipterous larvæ infesting man. From Wordnik.com. [Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases] Reference
Larvina: a maggot: a dipterous larva without distinct head or legs. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Jaw-capsule: contains the mouth structures in those dipterous larvae in which the head is differentiated. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Eucephalous: with a well-developed head, bearing the normal appendages: applied to certain dipterous larvae. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Many species of dipterous insects - fruit fly, face fly, botfly, horn fly, and housefly, for example - are targets for neem products. From Wordnik.com. [5 Effects on Insects] Reference
Some insects are dipterous or double-winged, as the fly; others are tetrapterous or furnished with four wings, as the bee; and, by the way, no insect with only two wings has a sting in the rear. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Animals] Reference
I wish I knew who was the author; you ought to know, as he admires you so much; he has a wonderful deal of knowledge, but his difficulties have not troubled me much as yet, except the case of the dipterous larva. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1] Reference
Flabellum: a fan: a leafed structure: the transparent lobe at the end of the glossa in bees: also used as = flagellum; q.v. Flabs: the lobes at the tip of the dipterous mouth: = labella; q.v. Flaccid: feeble: limber: lax. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
For the very reason of their being dipterous is that they are small and weak, and therefore require no more than two feathers to support their light weight; and the same reason which reduces their feathers to two causes their sting to be in front; for their strength is not sufficient to allow them to strike efficiently with the hinder part of the body. From Wordnik.com. [On the Parts of Animals] Reference
On Diopsis, a genus of dipterous insects, with descrip - tions of twenty-one species '. xvii. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the Linnean Society] Reference
Wonderduck Alas, it was not named for the soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipterous insect that often eat ... entry. From Wordnik.com. [Wonderduck's Pond] Reference
Mr. Samuel H. Scudder, who has largely bred North American butterflies, has found so many of the eggs and larvae destroyed by hymenopterous and dipterous parasites that he thinks at least nine-tenths, perhaps a greater proportion, never reach maturity. From Wordnik.com. [Darwinism (1889)] Reference
He then went very fully into this question, and concluded with a comical description of the magazine editor as a very unhappy spider, against whose huge geometric web there beats a continuous rain of dipterous insects of every known variety, besides innumerable nondescripts. From Wordnik.com. [Fan : the story of a young girl's life] Reference
As she leaps off from her light bark, the cast chrysalis skin of her early life beneath the waters, and sails away in the sunlight, her velvety wings fringed with silken hairs, and her neatly bodiced trim figure (though her nose is rather salient, considering that it is half as long as her entire body), present a beauty and grace of form and movement quite unsurpassed by her dipterous allies. From Wordnik.com. [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference
Scrophularia, and secretes a poison which produces a gall, on which the larva feeds; but there is another insect (Misocampus) which deposits its eggs within the body of the larva within the gall, and is thus nourished by its living prey; so that here a hymenopterous insect depends on a dipterous insect, and this depends on its power of producing a monstrous growth in a particular organ of a particular plant. From Wordnik.com. [The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.] Reference
A troublesome, dipterous insect (the "Peepsa," a species of. From Wordnik.com. [Himalayan Journals — Complete] Reference
"Many species of birds have their peculiar lice; but the hirundines alone seem to be annoyed with dipterous insects, which infest every species, and are so large, in proportion to themselves, that they must be extremely irksome and injurious to them. From Wordnik.com. [The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2] Reference
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