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How to use flies in a sentence

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There were flies by the billions, dirt and refuse everywhere, and scraggy dogs searching in the stalls for food.
The postal pipe hugs the curb, rivulets of rain on it trembling every time a package flies along it.
Traffic flies along the A19 and too few motorists adjust to the speed restriction imposed at Thormanby.
Here's one we prepared earlier on the current state of the art, and presumably if the UK scheme flies it will be along the lines of the US stuff.
His knees buckle as he automatically checks his flies are fastened, coughs and addresses us, increasingly demented.
Imagine my reaction then as I stumble out of the cupboard buttoning up the flies on my jeans and two secretaries are walking past.
Perhaps I should turn up late, reeking of red wine and motel sheets, with lipstick on my collar and my flies down.
A dancer will be lowered like a window washer, bucket and squeegee in hand, from the flies of the stage.
Suspended from the flies or moving in slow motion, she was a spiritual warrior and her chalked, nude body was her testing ground.
Although these fruit flies are polyphagous, they typically show strong seasonal preferences for certain fruits.
Someone should teach them that you catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.
In 1941, Williams hit six long flies that drove in a runner from third base.
Whoever said you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar had no clue.
Lee not only produces flies commercially but also provides fly tying materials.
This kind of charity flies in the face of all the economic truths that are evident and all the truths we have been told by the government.
There were also winged salamanders feasting on flying insects such as flies and mosquitoes.
Sensitive hairs on their bodies send data directly to the wings, so these flies can take off the instant motion is detected.
After a while I became quite good at spotting tsetse flies in the bungalow.
Donald Feener is an ecologist at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City who studies the relationship between parasitic flies and ants.
After all, he drove to the Big Hole in an automobile, fished with a fiberglass rod, and tied flies with synthetic materials.
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These flies may have brightly coloured bodies or long hackles and we can only guess at what the trout think they are.
Additionally, I do not like my flies too bulky and find that two strands of herl would be the most that I ever use.
For early season use most anglers tend to fish the flies deeper and so use heavier hooks.
Take the advice of local anglers for choice of flies and small popping plugs.
There seems to be a culture that now associates using artificial lures and flies with the need to conserve our stocks for the future.
Do you mean to tell me that they are just going to sit there while people continue to drop like flies and offer no solutions?
It saddens me at the end of every semester to see my dance mates dropping like flies because of injuries.
Inmates are dropping like flies and being taken for emergency medical treatment.
The fine animals that had endured the hellish voyage out from Britain died like flies from cold and sheer starvation.
When people are dropping like flies in plagues and epidemics, some actually recover, while others in their midst remain unscathed.
The right wings of flies were removed using fine forceps and mounted on microscope slides using double-sided tape.
However, I'm not sure if I got value for money and can't help remembering that there were no flies on me in that modest Bordeaux bistro.
Yep, no flies on our Stevie, whose last gig was as Secretary of State for Indian Affairs and Western Economic Diversification.
I stayed near the opening where a small swarm of flies buzzed about outside.
I accepted her criticisms, recognizing that I would probably catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
She sought to be less confrontational under the assumption that you can catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
Manure stored in silo-type storage units may crust on the top, but cracks allow flies to deposit eggs in wet material below the crust.
Suddenly the hawk flies at something a long way off. It's a squirrel running on the ground.
Butterflies, flies and small bees pollinate flowers less frequently, and deposit smaller pollen loads, than large bees.
Where open wounds festered, the flies were so thick as to make the wound seem to be a writhing metallic black mass.
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House flies may congregate on the faces of cattle in confined feedlots or dairy pens.
Wild-type flies showing normal phototaxis consistently moved towards the light to end up in the last tube by the end of the trial.
Newly drafted in from Europe for the most part, they died like flies in the pestiferous climate.
Each elephant then held the branch by its base and used it as a fly swatter, slapping at flies on its flanks.
Some are too weak to even swat away flies or other insects that crawl over their bodies.
Examples where intraspecific variation is apparently restricted to degree rather than direction include fruit flies and swallowtail butterflies.
The obsession with svelte figures flies in the face of past beliefs that regarded those who were thin as being unhealthy and malnourished.
In 1941 Patterson purchased a Dodge panel truck that was used to collect flies throughout the contiguous United States and much of Mexico.
The soldier palmer fly is like all palmered flies inasmuch as it has a thick body with a few or no tail fibres and no wings.
If you persist in attaching tippets with blood knots, surgeon's knots, or even the Orvis tippet knot, then attach your flies with clinch knots.
Otherwise all of us would be using hookless flies and not one angler in 10,000 does.
In all experiments, the numbers of codling moths, honeybees, and muscoid flies were counted in each trap.
Not so long ago the standard patterns were either seal's fur buzzers, or similar flies in pheasant-tail, or some dark coloured herl.
In addition, ants, carpet beetles, flies and cockroaches may find their way to the comb to feed and reproduce.
There were hatches of sedge, mayfly and olives, and the best flies were mayfly patterns, Golden Olive Bumble, and the Green Peter.
But make sure you have some dry flies and nymphs in your fly box so you can cover all possibilities.
He then talked about his salmon and how they had at times been taken on dry flies in warmer weather.
It would be foolish to neglect a selection of dry flies in the warmer months as these too can be very productive.
This second edition covers all aspects of fly fishing from tiny dry flies for brown trout to those big flies used for stripers and sailfish.
In brighter or calmer conditions, smaller flies are used, or dry flies if fish are showing.
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It even pays to try dry flies on occasion, especially if you're river fishing.
One or two flies is normally quite sufficient for May loch style fishing and make sure droppers are well spaced so as to look unrelated.
How can some dragonflies and caddis flies live in salt lakes but not in the sea?
The Adonis Blue is one of the most characteristic species of southern chalk downland, where it flies low over short-grazed turf.
It may be that the determination with which I exterminate any flies that enter my house is causing famine in the spider population.
There was no noticeable difference in survival rates between flies from the two crosses.
House flies and stable flies are not only a nuisance on livestock and poultry farms, but they also transport disease-causing organisms.
Air Canada now flies one daily non-stop flight between Toronto and Hong Kong.
Screening windows and doors helps keep flies out of milk barns, pig parlors and homes.
You can hear the whomp every time the ball flies past the batter and lands in the catcher's mitt.
The driver flips on flashing lights, plugs in a bootleg tape of an Asian girl singing Cyndi Lauper songs, and flies north out of Mogaung.
The keyboardist flies across the keys with the frenzied energy of a tap-dancing hummingbird.
The aircraft then flies over its customers, airdrops its supplies, and returns empty to the source takeoff site for another mission.
House flies, stable flies and blow flies may be pests of dairy cattle kept on lots.
I've been squashing the flies as I see them but now I can put up sticky traps and let them catch themselves.
Similarly, fruit flies selected to resist the attacks of parasites are less competitive foragers than their nonresistant counter-parts.
Then he suddenly notices something really shocking and his hand flies up to his head as he gasps audibly.
But how long will it before the good old letter becomes as common as carbon paper, horseshoes, and buttoned flies on trousers?
The only sound she could hear were the flies buzzing around the Brobdingnagian piles of waste.
Lifeline Sudan flies in Hercules in broad circles over the area days before food drops.
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Traditionally, the meat was rubbed with powdered ginger and pepper during hanging to discourage flies and prevent tainting.
Hydrodynamic bearings were substituted, which develop an air film when the tape gets up to speed and flies over the surface.
My brother-in-law, my sister's husband, is an American Airlines pilot who flies out of Boston.
Eventually we began scoring the proportion of flies in the remaining unstudied lines that successfully caught themselves on the baffles.
These results indicate that male fruit flies adaptively refine their courtship behavior with experience.
His team are using fruit flies to study the genetics of cocaine and other addictive drugs.
This measure flies in the face of judicial efforts to insist on disclosure of evidence.
Other flies are downright lures, which look nothing like a natural but provoke a response when pulled fast past a feeding trout.
You know that bit when he flies inverted above the enemy MiG and gives him the middle digit?
A west wind blows biting flies out of the dunes and they build up at the water's edge.
From Tiger Moths, to the Mach 1.2 Albatross jet, the business flies the aircraft that stir the blood.
He flies down to Cataluna and tries to locate her based on what little information he has about her.
The flies appeared to be normal, but they could not smell at all, either as larvae or as adults.
And as the empty tarmac streets melt in the midday sun, it appears only the flies are buzzing.
The water's crawling with the larvae of brine flies and midges these waterfowl love.
Several companies sell parasitic wasps for controlling flies in and around livestock buildings and feedlots.
A sloe-eyed seductress of uncertain age, flies in monthly to brave the sub-zero frigidity of Edmonton in the off-festival season.
Single flies were loaded into glass tubes and each glass tube was clamped between the diodes of the photocells.
Start-of-season trout fishermen cast their flies across the crystal water as I strode past, hungry for the good nosh at the Abbey Tearooms.
This line of flies became significantly better at learning than their unevolved cousins in a few dozen generations.
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The whip argued with the bombilation of the flies over the sugary dew of our sores.
Bites from mosquitoes, ticks, biting flies and some spiders also can cause reactions, but these are generally milder.
That's because attacks by swarms of these relentless biting flies cause blood loss, stress, and feed-efficiency problems.
If the fins in the rads are damaged, bent over, rotted away, full of dead flies or cow cack, the cooling system will suffer.
Other flies found on the poultry establishment include soldier flies, small dung flies, fruit flies and rat-tailed maggots.
In Montana, gall flies released to limit knapweed turn out to provide a food bonanza for white-footed mice.
In the nature of things, the art was attacked by flies and maggots, and the stench is reported to have been unendurable.
Transgenic flies were then produced using the standard embryo pole plasm injection technique.
As Consequence Music flies by, it continues to resound as it fades away in the distance when Rotifer gently brings it to a perfect close.
When I go back later this month I will be taking some extra rods, reels, lines and flies for the locals to use.
Every sworn peace officer who flies from place to place in the U.S. is armed on the flight.
A kookaburra flies between the clusters of trees with buoyant, floating wing beats.
These wasps parasitize the pupal life stage of house flies and, less successfully, stable flies.
The claim that doing harm is no worse than allowing harm flies in the face of powerful intuitions to the contrary.
The space shuttle is coasting from a very high speed and high altitude when it flies hypersonically.
Following etherization, flies were aliquoted into groups of 20, placed into vials, and allowed 1 day for recovery from etherization.
This butterfly always flies close to the ground in shady places or among the jungle undergrowth.
So it makes sense to me that the black soldier flies are closer to their natural food than corn and soybean meal.
Female flies lay eggs every two or three days, 300 eggs each time, which means the number of flies will rocket if not controlled.
Huntington welterweight Glenn Banks is set to grace the international stage when he flies to Copenhagen at the end of the month.
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Because fruit and vegetable waste goes in the brown bin and sits there for up to two weeks, maggots and fruit flies end up in it.
We pretty much went it alone with the exception of a few people, and they're dropping like flies as part of the coalition.
If fewer genes meant more freedom, then we would have to say flies and amoeba have more free will than humans.
So if he has a job in Naas, he hops in the helicopter and flies there from Galway.
The song flies at an exceptional rate with Dolph screaming like a wild-man, which happens to be very representative of their live performance.
Pennyroyal oil or lavender oil brushed onto woodwork surrounding doorways and kitchen benches will also help to keep flies away.
He noticed several bluebottle flies gathering in a panel at the side of the bath.
But, then, blooey, the storyline flies off into mannered absurdity, complete with a hostage-taking on top of the Eiffel Tower.
I use knotless tapered leaders but after attaching a few flies I tie in some tippet material when needed.
Prepupal soldier flies were self-collected as they sought pupation sites and crawled out of the manure basin.
Manure digestion with soldier flies practically eliminates environmental problems and produces significant salable products.
The flies can carry an infection causing ulcerous sores which take months or even years to heal.
The radar scans the ground on each side of the aircraft as the aircraft flies over the area of operations.
Also don't use the small buckle swivels which have become fashionable with some anglers, they don't work and you will lose flies when casting.
The buzz of flies permeated the air and the scavengers of meat fed on the dead.
He cast his line, swatting at the few flies that swarmed his sweaty forehead.
He sat there for several hours, dozing, snoring, and swatting at flies that settled on him.
Thousands of flies have swarmed into Kimberworth over the last few weeks causing residents to put up special fly paper to catch the insects.
It is demonstrably better than monofilament when used with small nymphs and dry flies because it is virtually invisible in water.
Another problem that troubled Zhu was pests, such as mosquitoes, flies and rats.
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He flits and flies all over the camp, scampers and gambols, plays little mischievous tricks on everyone.
Or you can use biological controls, such as praying mantids, predator flies and beneficial nematodes.
Like jackals around a tiger kill, small flies hovered around the feasting mantis, even daring to settle on its grotesque pea-like eyes.
He played himself out of center field when he misplayed a number of flies early in the season, but the Astros like his range in left field.
Insects such as ants, wasps and flies from the vicinity are attracted to these rewards and defend the plants facultatively against herbivores.
The pantyhose cover is effective in keeping fruit flies and gnats from moving in and out of the column.
Even with the inside plants, the coffee shop never has to worry about flies or gnats.
This summer you can enjoy the outdoors without fear of mosquitoes, black flies and gnats.
The family of march flies are closely related to the blood-sucking mosquitoes and sand flies.
March flies were of great interest to another scientist safe from their stings in his mainland laboratory.
More research is needed, but biodiesel produced with the help of black soldier flies could provide a cheaper alternative fuel.
Plated with either copper or nickel, lead shot flies truer because it resists deformation.
She flies inside in terror, trembling all over, and that day decides to put back the curtain.
An excited Brad Pitt made the ultimate wardrobe malfunction after stepping out onto the red carpet with his flies undone.
This is his key argument, but it flies in the face of what most environmentalists probably hold to be true.
No more would the swaggies need to walk as the crow flies as the Princes Highway was opened, linking Sydney to Adelaide via Melbourne.
I really need to test glide back at Quest with varying amounts of ballast to see how it flies with more then my light wing loading.
Certain types of parasitic insects, most commonly flies and wasps, thrive on other insect hosts.
It snows onto a snowman and a Christmas tree while Santa flies overhead and the aforementioned bulbs twinkle merrily.
A pair of flies beginning operation in April, if all were to live, would result in 191,010,000,000,000,000,000 flies by August.
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A small snout beetle, it flies and sometimes infests grain in the field before harvest.
Studies in Costa Rica showed that screwworm flies prefer thick, densely forested areas to open pastures.
But how long will it before the good old letter becomes as common as carbon-paper, horseshoes and buttoned flies on trousers?
The researchers found that the flies first visually measure the gap width and then only cross the gap if it is a traversable width.
In Bristol today the schools are crumbling, bus services are inadequate, public housing provision declines, and no one flies on Concorde.
At an open-air market in the city of Kisangani, flies swarm around severed goat heads, stacked up like a scene from a horror show.
A mayfly nymph was the most successful fly on the day and other successful flies were the Gosling and Bumble Olive.
A selection of nymphs and dry flies such as beaded pheasant tail, damsel and dragon fly nymphs all will all work.
A team of 2, 3 or 4 wet flies dragged through a wave on a cloudy day usually gets a response from the trout feeding near the surface.
I am using a size 10 Kamasan B175-a hook that gives a lovely profile for nymphs, wet flies and small lures.
Traditional wet flies in sizes 12 and 14 are often all you need, though if you can get hold of Matt's specials, they could give you the edge.
On Boxing Day she flies to China with some of the top young players to gain experience training with the best in the world.
Does any other team have opening bats who spend more of their time swishing at flies outside the off stump?
And if your hawk bates, that's flies off the fist in a temper, you're going to need that hand to help her back on again.
The flies were immobilized on their backs to the lid of a petri plate using myristic acid.
We used more fly dope and fat pork rind to ward off the flies instead of making smudges.
South Cumbrian dairy farmers are young, thrusting and ambitious, according to a new survey that flies in the face of gloomy industry forecasts.
This is simply unacceptable and flies in the face of numerous borough and county policies.
Meredith Edwards flies in from Wellington to look for her brother Michael, a whizz-kid historian who has gone missing.
On his yachts the King usually flies the normal yachting flag, that is the well known bicolour flag with a blue royal crown in the centre of it.
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She regularly flies to the USA to see clients and give talks on astrology, palmistry, tarot and how to develop clairvoyance.
After two months of pilot training, he flies to India, where he's forced to sell his plane and hoof it.
Kick aside a pile of fresh horse droppings, and a small cloud of flies is sure to explode around you.
It's also possible that midwestern grazing lands are being repopulated each spring by windborne flies from the South.
Somehow this is all tied in to the treacherous mountain trails, where a mile as the crow flies can take twenty miles of switchbacks.
But claiming that large, out-of-town superstores are good for local businesses flies in the face of the evidence.
But now the same complaint is chiming with adults, angered by a decision to go to war that flies in the face of public opinion.
Nematodes have been successfully deployed against a wide range of insect pests, including white grubs, weevils, fruit flies and woodwasps.
The great knot flies 3,000 miles from northwest Australia to its breeding ground in eastern China.
When an incubating bird is relieved by its returning mate, it leaves the nest immediately and flies away from the island.
Fished on a floating line, the flies are lobbed slightly upstream barely an arm's length from the rod.
In nature, house flies can readily establish colonies from the progeny of a single pair mating.
Mendieta curls an absolute beauty, wrong-footing a bemused Arendse, which flies into the corner.
So he drives a battered Volvo, travels second class on the train and when he flies he always goes economy.
Fruit flies have served as a prime model system in research on the effect of mate choice and assortative mating on speciation.
Living on a dollar per day, our cooking was done out in the open air, beset by flies and mosquitoes, heat and humidity.
It is a great place for little trout as they dart about in the crystal water and feed on the fat flies that unwittingly drop from the branches.
The Pacific-slope Flycatcher generally watches from a perch in the lower or middle canopy, and flies out to catch prey in the air.
Rose selected only those flies that reproduced late in life and bred them with one another.
There is no character with the sustaining power of Count Dracula, or of Renfield, the zoophagous patient who eats flies and spiders.
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Rarely did Sadie find herself bent over rows and rows of white cotton, batting away flies and wiping the sweat from her brow.
He caught several fish, learnt a lot about the fish, the flies and when to use surface fished popper, floating flies or sunk flies.
One aspect of the trip was the Norwegian disinfecting methods of all fishing equipment, waders, fishing rods, even flies and spinners.
When temperatures drop, stable flies overwinter as larvae or pupae in piles of larval breeding material.
The flies used in the metabolic rate study were later weighed to the nearest microgram on a microbalance.
If there are more greenheads and deer flies this year, Donahue said there aren't any obvious reasons why.
I most often see bee flies hovering around flowers, or if resting, usually on the ground, on bare soil.
People are concerned about smells, flies and vermin, not to mention what will happen if they overfill their bins.
At least seventy-one families of Diptera contain anthophilous species, and flies are pollinators of more than eleven hundred species.
Rather than moving forward while flapping their wings up and down like a bird, flies hover while beating their wings back and forth.
If attacked by parasitic flies that lay eggs in their bodies, they switch to a diet of poisonous hemlocks.
Due to the altitude, much of the region is free of malarial mosquitoes and the tsetse and other flies that spread human and animal diseases.
A giant parrot flies up and lands on my shoulder and caws because he hasn't learned to talk yet.
But the evidence shows that possessive apostrophes have been dropping like flies for years.
The smoke comes from cow dung fires used to drive off flies and mosquitoes.
Endless flights to test the effects of weightlessness on fruit flies left us cold and indifferent with few exceptions.
That conclusion, Mr Phillips says, flies in the face of the evidence recorded at paragraph 86 and shows that it was left out of account.
Female wasps parasitize fruit flies by inserting their eggs into fruit fly eggs.
In fact, they are regarded as beneficial because they are predators of many insects that do hold pest status, such as house flies and blowflies.
This mouse-like animal flies at night and sleeps in the day by hanging from the branches of trees.
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Under laboratory conditions, flying insects such as fruit flies and migratory locusts have powered stationary engines with their beating wings.
Time flies when you're speed dating, and by 10.30 pm, the official dating was over.
Your best bet is an open-jaw ticket that flies you into Perth and out of Darwin.
In the summer he is sheltered from heat and flies during the day while turning out at evening to enjoy the cool.
These sub-humans are attracted to the happiness of others like flies to ordure.
As he flies about his meat processing empire in his jet monitoring developments below, the beef baron's business is booming.
The best flies are streamers, those big creations that imitate bait fish or large nymphs.
Conditions get slightly uncomfortable and all politeness flies out the window.
The best flies have been Pheasant tail nymph, Blue Dun and midge balls during the day and mudeye at night.
Fishing a team of wet flies is a style of angling that has been practiced on northern rivers for many years.
Tick-like, with flattened bodies and grappling hook claws, the louse flies are truly bizarre.
Other louse flies overwinter as puparia presumably on or under the surface of the soil.
These flies are also called louse flies and are ectoparasites on birds and mammals.
It's not a daily occurrence that a football flies to the sidelines to hit innocent victims!
They resembled flies and their stingers were still very powerful, according to him.
Beneath him, miraculously confounded with the seat, flies a speeding horse on which the man perches side-saddle.
When this bird flies it's called a lilac-breasted roller because it rolls in the sky.
If a bird needs to eat the flies which thrive on uncut grass tussocks, then regular cutting of the grass for silage is going to be a problem.
Perhaps it's best not to think of the sea of grubs, flies and beetles there must be underfoot.
The flies I fish with are not the small streamers that you use on your local reservoir for trout.
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Muir first described the life cycle of these pupiparous flies in his description of. A. speiserianum from Amboina, Indonesia.
The flies for pike were naturally bigger than the bleaks, so they left me alone and I got some pike.
The Tomahawk cruise missile carries up to 1,000 lb of high explosive, flies at close to 600 mph, and has a range of 1,000 miles.
When I learned that house flies were getting stuck in my pomade, I decided to grow my hair out again.
She's one of the few people who flies the South African flag from a flagpole in her garden.
The birds' mother is also an awesome sight, as she flies onto the nest with a fish in her mouth to feed her young.
Emergent flies were frozen, pinned with their respective puparia, and sent to specialists for identification.
The prosecution's use of such evidence to stampede a jury into convicting him of multiple felonies flies in the face of the First Amendment.
Just as the flies are unfaithful partners, some flowers are dishonest about signaling a nectar reward.
I am unable to open a window in my house as swarms of blue flies come in just as soon as a window is open.
If there was not an open flower under that leaf, the flies rapidly walked down the stem and up another stem, instead of flying.
It's a bleak view proposed by the Dardennes, and one that flies in the face of old homilies about pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps.
You're making bald accusations against him, but you catch more flies with honey than vinegar, you know.
The walk would be about seven kilometers as the skua flies from our base camp to the top of Gorgon's Head.
The government's subdued reaction to the case is just another case where you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
Wet feed remaining at the ends of mangers also provide a place for flies to lay eggs.
Bright flies were embedded in the stringy pulp, the glistening flesh of the fruit.
All flies were reared on standard cornmeal molasses medium supplemented with baker's yeast.
The aircraft flies at altitudes high enough that there is no acoustic footprint.
On the Capitol flagpole, the Lone Star flies below the American flag, emblem of the few brief years when slaveholding Texas was its own republic.
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In in flies we have seen examples of incorrect chiral type, incorrect rotation, symmetrical ommatidia, and ommatidia with an incorrect number of photoreceptor cells.
The news flies in the face of flat denials by the BBC in Glasgow.
Sons Justin, 12, and Conor, 9, plan to spend most of the day fishing for trout, using their homemade poles and flies fashioned from chicken and sage grouse feathers.
Also, when the poultry house is cleaned out, leave areas of old dry manure to provide a reservoir of beneficials to repopulate the house as new flies occur.
Lacy grew up a Senator fan and as a teenager he shagged flies in Griffith Stadium for the likes of Goose Goslin, Joe Judge, Clyde Milan, and Walter Johnson.
Black bears, grizzly bears, polar bears, wolverines, mountain lions, a number of snakes and even lynx, badgers and black flies might kill you in the wild in Canada.
It is the story of a displaced yakuza gangster, whose crime family is killed and who flies to LA in search of his brother, only to wind up in the gangland web there.
The reason for not using knotted tapered leaders when fishing with very small flies is you will often get fish hitting the knots in mistake for a tiny insect.
I have done a lot of testing with various ideas for attaching flies to leaders and the only safe and best way to do this is by using a good, well-tied knot.
Graham tells of pulled pigtails and dead march flies in ink wells.
How often do you change flies during a day at the waterside?
During the breeding season, they also eat insects, especially dragonflies, mayflies, and caddis flies as they emerge from their aquatic larval stage.
The small, nondescript moth is seldom noticed as it flies in the evening.
Heller is both a poet and critic, that well-plumed rara avis who flies effortlessly between poetry and criticism and adroitly links their dual legacies.
As Maria flies to her daughter's bedside, she meditates on her own life.
Their primary food sources are beach fleas, lice, flies and ants.
The pilot deposits us, then flies to his native village, several miles up the valley, with a promise to return in 45 minutes for the flight to Tbilisi.
The gay pride rainbow flag proudly flies outside gay-run venues.
The winters were brutal and the black flies were merciless in the summer.
On the way home, their plane flies above a ship spilling oil into the sea.
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The body plans of lobsters and humans, flies and fish, barnacles and mice, are initiated using the same families of genes that are conserved across the animal kingdom.
Mauritanian society is strictly divided into a rigid caste system that flies in the face of the country's supposed march towards political liberalisation.
When the blowflies enter the flower, slanted spines prevent exit, and the flies are trapped overnight, spreading their pollen to the mature female florets inside the flower.
The circles of periodicity are really spirals, stretched out along the arrow of time that flies only in one direction, and sooner or later brings down every creature.
There are also flies whose larvae develop only in the tracheal passages of red kangaroos and lice that live in the throat pouches of cormorants and pelicans.
But put a frog in the middle of a field of motionless, recently killed flies and it will starve.
The flag this morning flies at half-staff in front of Engine Company 224 in Brooklyn.
The punningly named, 6-foot-2, winged heroine Fevvers flies her way through 1890s Europe.
The family Anthomyiidae is a globally distributed group of phytophagous, saprophagous, or coprophagous flies with over 1500 described species worldwide.
The National Theatre, with its push-button revolving stage, its sets which came out of the flies or up from the floor, was one of the mechanical wonders of the age.
This season, he's producing a lot of weak pop flies and grounders.
It flies in the face of reason and logic to expect such a thing.
Of course, that completely flies in the face of what is really happening.
The same is true of tsetse flies that bring sleeping sickness to animals.
He hates drinking with the flies so someone had better join him soon.
You could say there were no flies on Kevin when it came to football.
In southern Arizona, these flies exclusively use Arizona walnut, Juglans major, as a host plant, emerging between July and September from puparia in the soil.
In 1996 we detected Mediterranean fruit flies in one of our traps.
But it was recently found that some ham manufacturers here were so blinded by greed that they spread dichlorvos, a pesticide, on the ham so that flies would be kept off it.
In the early 1960s public demand for relief from the nuisance of greenhead flies resulted in the organization of the North Shore Greenhead Fly Control Project.

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