fly: Quick Facts

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Housefly life cycle

Close-up of a horse fly (Tabanus) with patterned wings and large eyes, perched on a green leaf.

A metallic green long-legged fly with red eyes and slender yellow legs stands on a green leaf.

The enticing trap of the wild arum plant

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Topics

Diptera entomophagy myiasis mosquito net fly flower insect Endopterygota heteropteran Coleoptera ant grasshopper wasp bee butterfly moth social insect gall fly

Key People

Statue of Italian physician and poet Francesco Redi; located outside the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy.

Francesco Redi

Italian physician and poet

Mute swan with cygnet. (birds)

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The bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) is seen in Switzerland on December 2024

Animal Factoids

Lion (panthera leo)

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Sea otter (Enhydra lutris), also called great sea otter, rare, completely marine otter of the northern Pacific, usually found in kelp beds. Floats on back. Looks like sea otter laughing. saltwater otters

Animal Group Names

wasp. Vespid Wasp (Vespidaea) with antennas and compound eyes drink nectar from a cherry. Hornets largest eusocial wasps, stinging insect in the order Hymenoptera, related to bees. Pollination

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