pomace fly

DEFINITIONS OF: pomace fly

Types:: show 4 types...; hide 4 types...; Rhagoletis pomonella, apple maggot, railroad worm
larvae bore into and feed on apples; Ceratitis capitata, Mediterranean fruit fly, medfly
small black-and-white fly that damages citrus and other fruits by implanting eggs that hatch inside the fruit; Drosophila melanogaster, drosophila
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

Type of:: dipteran, dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects
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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