INDEX
Reading edition
Air-sacks, breathing by, 46
Anthomyida, 10, 17
Asilus crabroniformis, 55
Aphides, plant-lice, etc., 8
Beelzebub, Lord-of-flies, 2
Bibionidæ, semi-blindness of, 108
Birds, food for, 80
Black death, 2
Blood-sucking flies, kinds of— genus, chrysops, 24 genus, hæmatobia, 16 genus, hæmatopota, 23 genus, lyperosia, 17 genus, tabanus, 23 genus, therioplectes, 23
Blood-sucking midges and gnats —common species— ceratopogon pulicaris, 108 ceratopogon bipunctatus, 108
ceratopogon varius, 108 (also others of the same genus and of the allied genus, anopheles) culex pipiens, 108
Blue-bottles, 12, 18, 33, 36, 51
Borborus equinus, 34
Bot-fly of the horse, 26
Breeze-flies, "blinden," 10, 23, 29, 69
Bridgewater Treatises, 1
Cabbage-fly, 17
Calliphora erythrocephala } see blue-bottles
Calliphora vomitoria } see blue-bottles
Celery-fly, 17
Chelifers, 55
Chrysops cæcutiens, 24
Chrysops relicta, 24
Conops flavipes, 22
Contagion, fly-borne, 84
Cordylurida, 10
Cow-dung fly, the yellow, 19
Crane-flies, or Daddy-long-legs, 109
Cremation of refuse, 41, 61, 65, 70
Cyrtoneura simplex, 17
Dipteræ, nearly 3,000 species, 10
Dragon-flies, 55
Drone-flies, 20, 22
Dun-flies, see Gad-flies
Dust-bins, preferably open, 65, 70
Dust destructor furnace, imperative, 65
Economic value of the fly, 41
Egg-traps, domestic refuse as, 65, 72
Empidæ, 54
Empusa muscæ, 56
Eristalis tenax, 21
Exclusion from rooms, 76
Fannia canicularis, 7
Fannia scalaris, 14, 18
Filth-flies, 51
Fleas, 108
Flecked flesh, 29
Fly chart, the Wingate, 88
Fly-traps, 66
Forest (or spider) fly, 22
Fungus-flies, 51
Futurist's Credo, 39
Gad-flies, 23
Garden pests, vegetarian, 17
Gargantuan jokes, 32
Gastrophilus, see Œstrus
Gentles, apparatus for breeding, 80
Gentles, green, 82
Glossina morsitans, 62
Green-bottle flies, 20
Grey blow-flies, 19
Hæmatobia stimulans, 16
Hæmatopota crassicornis, 23
Hæmatopota italica, 23
Hæmatopota pluvialis, 23
Hibernation, 15, 80
Hippoboscidæ, 22
Horse-flies, see Forest-flies
House-fly fungus, 56
House-fly, larva of, 35
House-fly, wing pattern of, 12
Hover-flies, 20
Human intestinal myiasis, 25, 26
Humble Creatures, 1, 34 hydrotæa dentipes, 17 hydrotæa irritans, 17
Instar, pupa, or chrysalid, 40
Larvæ, see Maggots
Lesser house-fly, larva of, 36
Lesser house-fly, wing pattern, 12
Louse-fly, tick, or ked, 22
Lucilia Cæsar, 20
Lucilia sericata, 20
Lyperosia irritans, 17
Maggots, feeding in company, 36
Maggots, insectivorous, 21
Maggots, jumping or hopping, 111, 112
Maggots, myiasic possibilities, 28, 37, 82
Maggots, parasitic on lepidoptera, etc., 111
Maggots, predaceous, 109
Maggots, "rat-tail," 21
Maggots, "star-tail," 109
Meal-worms, 80
Merodon narcissi, 21
Messengers of peril, 78
Metamorphosis, 37
Microdon, 22
Musca corvina, 14, 17
Muscina stabulans, 18, 27
Nostril-fly of the sheep, 4, 26, 28
Ocelli, visual importance of, 45
Odour of humanity, attracted by, 33
Œstrid flies, egg-laying aggressions, 31, 69
Œstrus hominis, discredited, 28
Œstrus (Gastrophilus) equi, 27
Œstrus (Gastrophilus) hæmorrhoidalis, 26
Œstrus nasalis 4
Œstrus ovis, 28
(Œstrus ovis hypoderma) bovis, see worble-flies
(Œstrus ovis hypoderma) lineatum, see worble-flies
Onion-fly, 17
Owl-midges, moth-like, 109
Pestering flies, commoner kinds of— cyrtoneura simplex, 17 fannia canicularis, 7 fannia scalaris, 18 musca domestica, 7 musca corvina, 17 muscina stabulans, 18 and other Anthomyidæ
Poisons, effective insecticide, 73
Polietes lardaria, 18
Pond blood-worms, 108
Robber-flies, 54, 109
Root-fly, the, 17
Sarcophaga carnaria, 19
Scatophaga stercoraria, 19
Scavenging services, 78
Scenopinus fenestralis, 110
Sex differentiation, 45
Soldier-flies, 22, 109
Spiders, flies parasitic on, 110
Stable-fly, 12, 13, 16, 51
Stable manure, 67
Stomoxys calcitrans, 12, 13, 16, 51
Stratiomyidæ, 22, 109
Swallow, attracted to breed, 53
Syrphidæ, 20
Syrphus, 21
Tabanidæ, 10, 22, see also blood-sucking flies
Tachinidæ, 10, 19
Therioplectes, see blood-sucking flies
Tipulidæ, 109
Traps for flies, some ineffective, 72
Turnip-fly, a beetle, 17
Veins of wings, 11
Voltairean atheism, controversy of, 5
Volucella, 21
Warning signals, flies as, 78
Westminster Hospital and myiasis, 28
Window-fly, the, 110
Window screens, 77
Wingate's nomenclature symbols, 12
Wing patterns contrasted, 12
Worble-flies, 26, 28, 69
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