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"Diptera" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... miller's thumb in their throats, and by which they had evidently been choked in the act of swallowing them. That it is especially fond of insects is shown by the great activity it displays, when in captivity, in capturing house-flies and other diptera. Those who have visited Paris will probably have seen the grebes in the window of the restaurateur in the Rue de Rivoli. For years have a pair of these birds been living, apparently in the greatest enjoyment, within the glass ...
— Love's Meinie - Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds • John Ruskin
... collecting the insects, but excepting Tierra del Fuego, I never saw in this respect so poor a country. Even in the upper and damp region I procured very few, excepting some minute Diptera and Hymenoptera, mostly of common mundane forms. As before remarked, the insects, for a tropical region, are of very small size and dull colours. Of beetles I collected twenty-five species (excluding ...
— The Voyage of the Beagle • Charles Darwin
... though these authorities are in part correct. As far as Lepidoptera are concerned, and certain of Hemiptera, they are right—the antennae in these creatures are the seat of the organs of audition. But in Orthoptera, in most of Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, and Diptera, and in certain bugs (Hemiptera), they are located elsewhere. The habit that almost all insects have of retracting their antennae when alarmed by noise, or otherwise, has done much to advance and strengthen the ...
— The Dawn of Reason - or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals • James Weir
... many others that are analogous; and those persons who have never left Paris can imagine the ceiling blackened with smoke and the mirrors specked with millions of spots, showing in what freedom and independence the whole order of diptera lived in the Cafe ...
— Sons of the Soil • Honore de Balzac |
Words linked to "Diptera" : family Cuterebridae, Muscoidea, family Muscidae, Asilidae, family Oestridae, family Cecidomyidae, Cecidomyidae, family Hypodermatidae, Calliphoridae, Cuterebridae, family Calliphoridae, family Tabanidae, family Glossinidae, order Diptera, Tachinidae, family Drosophilidae, dipteron, dipterous insect, Insecta, Gasterophilidae, class Hexapoda, family Gasterophilidae, dipterous, family Asilidae, Bombyliidae, Trephritidae, suborder Nematocera, Hypodermatidae, dipteran, Glossinidae, Simuliidae, Oestridae, Tabanidae, family Bombyliidae, two-winged insects, family Tachinidae, Drosophilidae, Haematobia, Hippoboscidae, genus Haematobia, family Trypetidae, class Insecta, family Trephritidae, fly, Muscidae |
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