Meaning | Any of numerous small insects whose larvae feed on fruits. |
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Synonym | pomace fly |
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Narrower | Mediterranean fruit fly, medfly, Ceratitis capitata | small black-and-white fly that damages citrus and other fruits by implanting eggs that hatch inside the fruit |
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apple maggot, railroad worm, Rhagoletis pomonella | larvae bore into and feed on apples |
drosophila, Drosophila melanogaster | small fruit fly used by Thomas Hunt Morgan in studying basic mechanisms of inheritance |
vinegar fly | flies whose larvae feed on pickles and imperfectly sealed preserves |
Broader | dipterous insect, two-winged insects, dipteran, dipteron | insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing |
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