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Synonyms for fruit fly
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Définition of fruit fly
- As in insect : noun bug
- They are particularly on the watch for the Mediterranean fruit fly and for the mongoose.
- Extract from : « Conservation Reader » by Harold W. Fairbanks
- In the fruit fly, Drosophila ampelophila, we have found about 125 characters that are inherited in a perfectly definite way.
- Extract from : « A Critique of the Theory of Evolution » by Thomas Hunt Morgan
- A fourth case is shown in the fruit fly, where an ebony fly with long wings is mated to a grey fly with vestigial wings (fig. 24).
- Extract from : « A Critique of the Theory of Evolution » by Thomas Hunt Morgan
- The most extensive and conclusive experiments along this line are those by Morgan on the fruit fly Drosophila.
- Extract from : « The Organism as a Whole » by Jacques Loeb
- Again, a mutant stock in the fruit fly (Drosophila) has as its most marked characteristic very short wings.
- Extract from : « Applied Eugenics » by Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson
- The earlier ripening fruit usually escapes damage from fruit fly, but the late fruit often suffers considerably.
- Extract from : « Fruits of Queensland » by Albert Benson
- Many kinds of pears do well, but, unfortunately, this fine fruit is very liable to be attacked by fruit fly.
- Extract from : « Fruits of Queensland » by Albert Benson
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