#fly  two-winged insects characterized by active flight
  supertype:  #dipterous_insect__dipterousinsect__two-winged_insects__dipteran__dipteron  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
  part:  #alula
  member of:  #order_Diptera
  subtype:  #housefly__Musca_domestica  common fly that frequents human habitations and spreads many diseases
  subtype:  #tsetse_fly__tsetse__tzetze_fly__tzetze__glossina  blood-sucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc.
  subtype:  #blowfly__blow_fly  large usually hairy metallic blue or green fly; lays eggs in carrion or dung or wounds
     subtype:  #Calliphora_vicina__bluebottle  blowfly with iridescent blue body; makes a loud buzzing noise in flight
     subtype:  #greenbottle_fly__greenbottle  blowfly with brilliant coppery green body
  subtype:  #flesh_fly__fleshfly__Sarcophaga_carnaria  fly whose larvae feed on carrion or the flesh of living animals
  subtype:  #tachina_fly__tachinafly  bristly fly whose larvae live parasitically in caterpillars and other insects; important in control of noxious insects
  subtype:  #gadfly  any of various large flies that annoy livestock
     subtype:  #botfly  stout-bodied hairy dipterous fly whose larvae are parasites on humans and other mammals
        subtype:  #horse_botfly__horsebotfly__Gasterophilus_intestinalis  parasitic chiefly on horses
        subtype:  #human_botfly__humanbotfly__dermatobiahomini  large tropical American fly; parasitic on humans and other mammals
        subtype:  #sheep_botfly__sheepbotfly__sheep_gadfly__sheepgadfly__Oestrus_ovis  larvae are parasitic on sheep
     subtype:  #warble_fly  hairy bee-like fly whose larvae produce lumpy abscesses (warbles) under the skin of cattle
     subtype:  #horsefly__cleg__clegg__horse_fly__horsefly  large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals
  subtype:  #bee_fly__beefly  hairy nectar-eating fly that resembles a bee; larvae are parasitic on larvae of bees and related insects
  subtype:  #horn_fly__Haematobia_irritans  small black European fly introduced into North America; sucks blood from cattle especially at the base of the horn

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