housefly in English

noun
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a common small fly occurring worldwide in and around human habitation. Its eggs are laid in decaying material, and the fly can be a health hazard due to its contamination of food.
Only the Cyclorrapha, which includes Drosophila and the common housefly , Musca domestica, have a bicoid gene.
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    house fly
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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.