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    Amanita muscaria (redirect from Fly agaric)
    Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric or fly amanita, is a basidiomycete of the genus Amanita. It is a large white-gilled, white-spotted...
    79 KB (8,615 words) - 07:56, 31 May 2024
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    pteron "wing". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwings having evolved into advanced mechanosensory organs known as...
    87 KB (9,383 words) - 11:54, 28 May 2024
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    number 8). The players outside the scrum are called "the backs": scrum-half, fly-half, inside centre, outside centre, two wings, and a fullback. Forwards...
    69 KB (7,488 words) - 16:47, 29 May 2024
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    Emirates ordered $50 billion of Boeing jets with their sister airline, flyDubai at the Dubai Airshow. Emirates ordered 90 aircraft, including both versions...
    114 KB (9,836 words) - 09:28, 3 June 2024
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    Hoverfly (redirect from Syrphid fly)
    example of a well-known hoverfly maggot is the rat-tailed maggot, of the drone fly, Eristalis tenax. It has a breathing siphon at its rear end, giving it its...
    24 KB (2,632 words) - 18:24, 6 June 2024
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    Mayfly (redirect from May-Fly)
    necessarily in May, in enormous numbers. Some hatches attract tourists. Fly fishermen make use of mayfly hatches by choosing artificial fishing flies...
    71 KB (7,586 words) - 03:00, 30 April 2024
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    So Much Fun. On August 28, 2019, Scott's documentary film, Look Mom I Can Fly, was released on Netflix. On October 4, 2019, Scott released a single, "Highest...
    146 KB (12,268 words) - 12:44, 29 May 2024
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    A crane fly is any member of the dipteran superfamily Tipuloidea, which contains the living families Cylindrotomidae, Limoniidae, Pediciidae and Tipulidae...
    29 KB (2,855 words) - 15:37, 25 May 2024
  • was replaced in 1965 with "Fly the Friendly Skies", which was in use until 1996 in its first iteration. The "It's time to fly" slogan was created in 2004...
    120 KB (9,906 words) - 15:36, 5 June 2024
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    Tabanidae (redirect from Horse Fly)
    bite land vertebrates, including humans, to obtain blood. They prefer to fly in sunlight, avoiding dark and shady areas, and are inactive at night. They...
    44 KB (5,152 words) - 09:58, 16 March 2024
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    Fly fishing is an angling technique that uses an ultra-lightweight lure called an artificial fly, which typically mimics small invertebrates such as flying...
    65 KB (9,378 words) - 00:52, 20 April 2024
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    Dragonfly (redirect from Dragon fly)
    rest. By contrast, damselflies (suborder Zygoptera) have slender bodies and fly more weakly; most species fold their wings over the abdomen when stationary...
    83 KB (9,339 words) - 21:36, 21 May 2024
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    "Fly Me to the Moon", originally titled "In Other Words", is a song written in 1954 by Bart Howard. The first recording of the song was made in 1954 by...
    22 KB (1,994 words) - 00:35, 20 March 2024
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    Botfly (redirect from Bot fly)
    myiasis in humans. A botfly, also written bot fly, bott fly or bot-fly in various combinations, is any fly in the family Oestridae. Their life cycles vary...
    14 KB (1,569 words) - 02:29, 27 March 2024
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    Venus flytrap (redirect from Venus fly trap)
    December 2019. "Background Information on Venus Fly Traps – Venus Fly Trap naming and history". FlyTrapCare.com. 4 April 2008. Archived from the original...
    62 KB (6,947 words) - 20:20, 27 April 2024
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    word tsetse means "fly" in Tswana, a Bantu language of southern Africa. As "tsetse fly" is a pleonasm, (meaning, literally, "fly fly"), recently,[when...
    85 KB (8,931 words) - 17:06, 16 May 2024
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    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...
    17 KB (1,910 words) - 15:19, 30 September 2023
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    humanity' ... [imposing] a ban on all flights in the country's airspace — a no-fly zone — and tightened sanctions on the Muammar Gaddafi regime and its supporters...
    200 KB (17,035 words) - 09:21, 2 June 2024
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    Asilidae (redirect from Robber Fly)
    The Asilidae are the robber fly family, also called assassin flies. They are powerfully built, bristly flies with a short, stout proboscis enclosing the...
    29 KB (3,178 words) - 13:50, 24 May 2024
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    species of fly (an insect of the order Diptera) in the family Drosophilidae. The species is often referred to as the fruit fly or lesser fruit fly, or less...
    144 KB (16,575 words) - 05:34, 2 May 2024
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