Fruit flies: Summer pests or scientific marvel?
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Fruit flies: Summer pests or scientific marvel?
Fly-swatting season is here. No sooner will you place your fresh strawberries on the kitchen counter than will the first fruit fly arrive. It won.
Fly-swatting season is here. No sooner will you place your fresh strawberries on the kitchen counter than will the first fruit fly arrive. It won't take long for a platoon of Drosophila buddies to be hovering about the spoils.
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Country diary: a jewel-eyed destroyer infests the knapweed
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Summer Pest or Scientific Marvel?, Columbia
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What You Need to Know About Spotted Lanternflies in New Jersey
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Scientists name new fly species after Marvel characters, Stan Lee
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Ant-Man Enlists the Wasp in Summer Sequel - Pest Control
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If you've seen small gnats or flies in your kitchen, you probably have
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Fruit flies: Summer pests or scientific marvel?
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New Fly Species Named After Deadpool for Uncanny Resemblance with
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The Poet and the Fly: Art, Nature, God, Mortality, and
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