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TEXAS NATURE OBSERVATIONS AND REMINISCENCES. 31
Sprinkle lime or crude carbolic This tongue of our common
acid or kerosene oil, or boiling fly species is wonderfully composed
hot water with a sprinkling can of a network of delicate absorption
once every week-but thoroughly tubules (at 1) which during the
-on all manure piles and other act of feeding is supplied by aid
filth around the yard, and note of the muscular and very flexible
the decided absence of the fly neck part of the tongue's body
pest around your kitchen and (at 2) and communicates at the
dining-room in a short time and inner base of the flies head and
during the hot summer months thorax with the stomach.
to come. Try it and do it the The eyeball of the common fly
year around, and thus avoid such consists of numerous prismatic
insects as depicted herein from segments (4) which vary but little
nature from daily and constantly in various fly species, though some
annoying you and creeping into show more or less arranged lense
your soup, milk cans, foodstuffs, segments.
etc. It is to our own interest In the vicious fly species these
to do something and to keep it lense segments seem to be more of
up during the warm season. a cubic formation; however, they
As is well known a fly's head
vary slightly in appearance during
parts consists of the two dark microscopic and photomicrographic
and globular eyeballs and the reproduction-according to the anmouth
parts at its interior base
gle of light reflex applied to
comprising the protruding, long illuminate such otherwise invisible
tongue or proboscis; and, in such objects.
genera of flies which sting-with In the common holsefly, as
extra stinging implements-knives stated, the tongue's suction apparaand
dagger-like implements which tus' consists of numerous hair-fine
the insects gradually work into capillary tubules arranged in spiralthe
skin tissues and capillary shape at the apex or lobe of the
layers until blood oozes, which tongue with which the fly sips its
is then absorbed by special suction food and absorbs it through these
tubules. The mouth parts vary delicate capillary loops.
considerably in different species In some of the vicious prairie
of flies; the common housefly, flies and the cattle fly there exists a
and as seen on the microscopic combination of such suction apparphoto
above, being void of special ati-besides the tongue with which
knives and daggers, but supplied the fluids are aspirated after
with a long tongue or suction scarifying their victims with their
tube (1 and 2 on photo.) powerful sting implements.
Some Rare Prairie Flies
Our Texas prairie conceals a peculiar fly species which, in one
large variety of more or less way also, is a useful fly, as it
vicious fly species among which , attacks and destroys wasps and
the so-called humpback fly and other vituperous insects. This fly
the horsefly will be considered has somewhat the general aphere.
pearance of a wasp itself, but
One of the prairie fly pictures it has such peculiar and characterisshows
same in the act of carrying tic anatomical arrangements that
its victim-a black wasp. I am sure these insects belong
Among the numerous and various to the fly family, for these reasons:
types of prairie flies, for inst nce. First, they have the same number
there exists a peculiar and not of haired feet, with the characterisgenerally
known type of a most tic footclaws and footpads, and
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Menger, Rudolph. Texas Nature Observations and Reminiscences, book, 1913; San Antonio, Tex.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth14396/m1/31/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.