housefly in English
Only the Cyclorrapha, which includes Drosophila and the common housefly , Musca domestica, have a bicoid gene.
Use "housefly" in a sentence
1. Why is the common housefly able to perform complex and precise aerobatic maneuvers?
2. Which has more capacity, the most advanced of the neural-network computers or a simple housefly?
3. The original and natural food of the housefly is fermenting vegetable matter and dungs of herbivores .
4. Since the eggs are small, you can find hundreds of housefly larvae, called maggots, sharing the same accommodations.
5. “The performance of even the most advanced of the neural-network computers . . . has about one ten-thousandth the mental capacity of a housefly.”
6. Botflies deposit eggs on a host, or sometimes use an intermediate vector such as the common housefly, mosquitoes, and, in the case of Dermatobia hominis, a species of tick
7. Blowfly, name for flies fly, name commonly used for any of a variety of winged insects, but properly restricted to members of the order Diptera, the true flies, which includes the housefly, gnat, midge, mosquito, and tsetse fly.