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    • flies
  • Scientific names
    • Diptera
  • Portuguese
    • mosquito

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Recent Observations

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What

bee flies Family Bombyliidae

Observer

james5

Date

May 25, 2012
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What

bee flies Family Bombyliidae

Observer

james5

Date

May 25, 2012
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Observer

guerillafarmer99

Date

Mar 26, 2012 09:48 AM EDT

Description

Jason Sharp;
Hillsborough County, Florida

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Description from Wikipedia

True flies are insects of the order Diptera (Greek: di = two, and pteron = wing), possessing a single pair of wings on the mesothorax and a pair of halteres, derived from the hind wings, on the metathorax.

No range data available.