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    Ceratopogonidae, Chironomidae, and Thaumaleidae. Over 2,200 species of black flies have been formally named, of which 15 are extinct. They are divided into...
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  • Asphalt City (redirect from Black Flies)
    Asphalt City (originally titled and released in some countries as Black Flies) is a 2023 American thriller drama film directed by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire...
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  • in his novels Safelight (2004) and Black Flies (2008). Burke has published four novels: Safelight (2004), Black Flies (2008), Into the Savage Country (2015)...
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    Fly (redirect from Flies)
    and mouthparts designed for piercing and sucking (mosquitoes, black flies and robber flies), or for lapping and sucking in the other groups. Their wing...
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    Psychodidae (redirect from Moth flies)
    Psychodidae, also called drain flies, sink flies, filter flies, sewer flies, or sewer gnats, is a family of true flies. Some genera have short, hairy...
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    a subclade. Families in Nematocera include mosquitoes, crane flies, gnats, black flies, and multiple families commonly known as midges. The Nematocera...
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    on the 2008 novel, "Black Flies", by Shannon Burke, which was released on May 18, 2023. The film originally had the Black Flies name, but was changed...
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    Botfly (redirect from Bot flies)
    Botflies, also known as warble flies, heel flies, and gadflies, are a family of flies known as the Oestridae. Their larvae are internal parasites of mammals...
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    Tabanidae (redirect from Horse-flies)
    Horse-flies and deer flies are true flies in the family Tabanidae in the insect order Diptera. The adults are often large and agile in flight. Only female...
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    Hoverfly (redirect from Hover flies)
    Hoverflies, also called flower flies or syrphids, make up the insect family Syrphidae. As their common name suggests, they are often seen hovering or...
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    Calliphoridae (redirect from Blow-flies)
    The Calliphoridae (commonly known as blow flies, blow-flies, carrion flies, bluebottles, or greenbottles) are a family of insects in the order Diptera...
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    Flesh fly (redirect from Flesh flies)
    Members of the subfamily Sarcophaginae are small to large flies 0.16–0.9 inches (4.1–22.9 mm) with black and gray longitudinal stripes on the thorax and checkering...
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  • Street in Gary, Indiana. Days after the family moved in, they claimed black flies swarmed the porch in December and kept returning repeatedly. Campbell...
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    Asilidae (redirect from Robber flies)
    assassin flies. They are powerfully built, bristly flies with a short, stout proboscis enclosing the sharp, sucking hypopharynx. The name "robber flies" reflects...
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  • The Flies (French: Les Mouches) is a play by Jean-Paul Sartre, produced in 1943. It is an adaptation of the Electra myth, previously used by the Greek...
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    Chironomidae (redirect from Lake flies)
    (informally known as chironomids, nonbiting midges, or lake flies) comprise a family of nematoceran flies with a global distribution. They are closely related...
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  • Sheryl (9/73 screenplays produced) Asphalt City (2024) - then titled Black Flies Cobweb (2023) The High Note (2020) – then titled Covers The Half of It...
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    Mosquitoes, the Culicidae, are a family of small flies consisting of 3,600 species. The word mosquito (formed by mosca and diminutive -ito) is Spanish...
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    measure about 16 millimetres (5⁄8 in) long. These medium-sized flies have a predominantly black body, with metallic reflections ranging from blue to green...
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    Tsetse fly (redirect from Tse-Tse Flies)
    spelled tzetze; also known as tik-tik flies) are large, biting flies that inhabit much of tropical Africa. Tsetse flies include all the species in the genus...
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    Many species of flies of the two-winged type, Order Diptera, such as mosquitoes, horse-flies, blow-flies and warble-flies, cause direct parasitic disease...
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    Sciaridae (redirect from Sciarid flies)
    The Sciaridae are a family of flies, commonly known as dark-winged fungus gnats. Commonly found in moist environments, they are known to be a pest of...
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    Conopidae (redirect from Thick-headed flies)
    The majority of conopids are black and yellow, or black and white, and often strikingly resemble wasps, bees, or flies of the family Syrphidae, themselves...
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  • Due to a rise in nuisance complaints, in 1998, a black fly assessment zone to control black flies along a special 26-mile corridor of the Los Angeles...
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  • original version found on the EP Games in the Dark (2009). The song "Black Flies" was released on 21 April 2012 as a 100-copy limited edition LP as part...
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    Bibionidae (redirect from March flies)
    Bibionidae (March flies) is a family of flies (Diptera) containing approximately 650–700 species worldwide. Adults are nectar feeders and emerge in numbers...
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  • Jar of Flies is the third studio EP by American rock band Alice in Chains. It was released on January 25, 1994, by Columbia Records. The band's second...
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  • table, triggers the bomb by taking the weight off her foot, and as the bomb flies straight up she bats it out the window. The explosion takes out the side...
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    Tephritidae (redirect from Peacock flies)
    The Tephritidae are one of two fly families referred to as fruit flies, the other family being the Drosophilidae. The family Tephritidae does not include...
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    Stratiomyidae (redirect from Soldier flies)
    somewhat wasplike mimics, marked with black and yellow or green and sometimes metallic. They are often rather inactive flies which typically rest with their...
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