Sentence example with the word 'bluebottles'

bluebottles

Last update: July 12, 2015


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But the likeness probably goes deeper than superficial resemblance that appeals to the eye, for spiders which distinguish flies from bees by touch and not by sight, treat drone-flies after touching them, not in the fearless way they evince towards bluebottles (Calliphora), but in the cautious manner they display towards bees and wasps, warily refraining from coming to close quarters until their prey is securely enswathed in silk.   [Please select]

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Attracted by the effluvia from the dead meat, the Bluebottles haunt my laboratory, the windows of which are always open.   [Please select]

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The Bluebottles are not long in inspecting what I have prepared for them: they enter the jar, go out and come back again, inquiring into the invisible thing revealed by its fragrance.   [Please select]

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It is clear that neither the Drone-flies nor the Bluebottles, whose larvæ live in putrefying matter, nor yet the Ammophilæ who victual theirs with caterpillars, could ever have carried the larvæ which invaded them into cells filled with honey.   [Please select]

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After the Anthophoræ, I tried the first live insects that I was able to procure at once: Drone-flies, Bluebottles, Hive-bees, small Butterflies.   [Please select]

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What the greenbottles, the bluebottles and the flesh flies do in the open air, at the expense of every kind of corpse, other flies, narrowing their province, do underground at the Wasps' expense.   [Please select]

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Attracted by the effluvia from the dead meat, the bluebottles haunt my laboratory, the windows of which are always open.   [Please select]

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