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TEXAS NATURE OBSERVATIONS AND REMINISCENCES. 29
flies in a small and thin glass, the photo seen herein was taken
and it was observed how the fly on the second day with a close
deposited the living larvae, which focusing lens and a Bausch
men, Showing the Matured Eggs or Flyworms (Lar
to hatching, onethird of a day;
val Flies). hatching of larvae to first molt,
Both of these flies, I may state,
when captured on a window pane,
were quite large and the abdomen
distended, and one deposited living
worms shortly after being put into
the small glass.
How immensely the flies breed
and multiply during the hot season
is well known and illustrated
herein-each of the small creeping
wormsm" on the photo representing
future fly. I had prepared the
view during an outing and hunting
trip to a relative's farm where
the entrails of a small cotton tail
rabbit were purposely hung up
on a board to attract the blowflv. MRID OF LIV LARVAL FLIS
(Maggots) and Eggs Deposited by Swarm of
It was in hot summer time, and Flies on Entrails of Rabbit (One-half Natural
hardly had an hour passed when the Size).
entire intestines and the board one day; first to second molt,
itself swarmed with blowflies and one day; second molt to pupation
others of the pestiferous insects. three days: pupation to issuing
Fly eggs and living flyworms were of the adult, five days; total life
soon present by the millions, and round, approximately ten days.
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