DROSOPHILA. Apple I.
/>.
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.
on
(60)
