ABSP - Flies

Flies

aedes	a genus of mosquito, including one that carries DENGUE and yellow fever. [Gk. aedes, distasteful].
aedine	pertaining to an AEDES, a genus of mosquito.
alate	having wings. Also ALATED. (Noun) a winged insect > ALATES.
anopheles	a kind of mosquito. [Gk. anopheles hurtful, from an- (privative) + ophelos help].
beetfly	a common pest of beets and mangelwurzels.
bloodworm	the larva of the MIDGE.
blowfly	a large fly.
blowie	a blowfly.
bluebottle	a large fly (genus Calliphora) with metallic blue abdomen, aka BLOWFLY.
bot	the maggot of a botfly. Also BOTT. (Verb) to cadge: BOTS, BOTTING, BOTTED.
botfly	a name for various flies that lay their eggs on horses, etc.
bott	the maggot of a botfly. Also BOT.
breese	the gadfly.
bristletail	another name for the SILVERFISH.
brommer brummer	the BLUEBOTTLE fly.
brulot	a biting fly.
brummer	see BROMMER.
budworm	a larva that feeds on plant buds.
bushfly	any of various small black dipterous flies.
campodeid	a primitive wingless insect of the order Diptera.
chironomid	a member of a large genus of common midges.
cleg	a HORSEFLY.
cornfly	the GOUTFLY.
cranefly	a fly with very long legs, aka daddy-long-legs.
culex	a genus of insects, including the mosquito > CULICES or CULEXES.
culicid	a member of the genus CULEX, a genus of insects, including the mosquito.
culiciform	like or resembling a mosquito.
culicine	a mosquito of a group that contains the genus Culex but not Anopheles.
dayfly	a neuropterous insect of the genus Ephemera and related genera, so called because it commonly lives but one day in the winged or adult state.
deerfly	a bloodsucking fly.
dipteran	an insect of the order Diptera, a large order of two-winged insects including flies, gnats, mosquitoes, etc. Also DIPTERON.
dipterist	a person who studies flies.
dipteron	an insect of the order Diptera, a large order of two-winged insects including flies, gnats, mosquitoes, etc > DIPTERA or DIPTERONS. Also DIPTERAN.
dobson dobsonfly	the larva of a large neuropterous insect, used as fish bait > DOBSONFLIES.
doodlebug	the larva of an antlion or other insect; (coll.) a flying bomb of the 1939-45 war.
drosera	the fruit-fly > DROSERAS. [Gk. droseros, dewy].
drosophila	a kind of fruit-fly > DROSOPHILAS or DROSOPHILAE.
fly	any insect of the order Diptera; (adj.) surreptitious or sly > FLIER or FLYER, FLIEST or FLYEST; (verb) to travel through the air: FLIES, FLYING, FLOWN, FLEW; to hit a ball high into the air in baseball: FLIES, FLYING, FLIED.
frit fritfly	a small fly destructive to wheat and other crops.
gadfly	a kind of stinging fly.
gallfly	an insect of the hymenopterous family Cynipidae that causes galls by depositing its eggs in plants.
gallinipper	a large mosquito capable of inflicting painful bite.
glassworm	the larva of a GNAT.
glossina	an insect of the tsetse fly genus.
gnat	any small fly of the family Culicidae, of which the females are commonly bloodsuckers.
gnatlike	like a GNAT.
gnatling	a small gnat.
gnatty	infested with gnats.
goutfly	a fly whose larvae cause gout (a swelling of the stalk) by boring into wheat.
grannom+	a type of caddis fly used in angling.
grayfly	the trumpet fly.
grubworm	the larva of some insects.
hellgramite hellgrammite	the large brown aquatic larva of the Dobson fly.
hemipterous	of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Hemiptera, an order of insects including the bugs.
horsefly	a large biting fly.
housefly	the common FLY.
hoverfly	a kind of fly > HOVERFLIES.
insectile	pertaining to, or having the nature of, insects.
instar	the form of an insect between moult and moult; (verb) to set among the stars > INSTARS, INSTARRING, INSTARRED.
maggot	any soft-bodied limbless larva, esp. of a housefly, blowfly, or other dipteran fly, typically found in decaying organic matter.
maggoty	infested with maggots > MAGGOTIER, MAGGOTIEST.
mallophagous	relating to the Mallophaga, an order of wingless parasitic insects, bird-lice or biting-lice.
mawk	a maggot. [ON mathkr, maggot].
mawky	maggoty > MAWKIER, MAWKIEST.
medfly	a Mediterranean fruit fly.
midge	a small gnat-like fly, esp of the family Chironomidae.
midgie	a small biting insect such as a midge or sandfly > MIDGIES.
midgy	full of midges > MIDGIER, MIDGIEST.
mosquito	any dipterous insect of the family Culicidae: the females have a long proboscis adapted for piercing the skin of man and animals to suck their blood > MOSQUITOS or MOSQUITOES.
mossie mozzie	mosquito > MOSSIES. Also MOZZIE.
motuca mutuca	a large Brazilian biting fly > MOTUCAS. [Port. f. Tupi mutuca].
mozzie	see MOSSIE.
musca	a genus of dipterous insects, including the common house fly, and numerous allied species: MUSCAE.
muscid	of the family including the housefly > MUSCIDS.
mutuca	see MOTUCA.
namu	a black New Zealand sandfly.
ootheca	a case containing the eggs of some insects > OOTHECAE.
pium	a small troublesome Brazilian biting fly > PIUMS.
prepupa	an insect in the stage of life before a pupa > PREPUPAE or PREPUPAS.
punkey punkie punky	a biting gnat.
sandfly	any of various small bloodsucking flies.
sciarid	a minute, dark-coloured, two-winged fly.
screwworm	the larva of a dipterous fly which develops under the skin of certain animals.
silverfish	any wingless primitive insect of the genus Lepisma (order Thysanura), which feeds on starch in wallpaper, bookbindings, etc.
simulium	a small black blood-sucking fly > SIMULIUMS.
skeeter	a mosquito.
stegomyia+	a genus of mosquito, including one that carries dengue and yellow fever, aka AEDES.
stonefly	a insect whose larva live under stones in streams.
subimago	a stage in the development of certain insects, such as the May flies, intermediate between the pupa and imago > SUBIMAGINES, SUBIMAGOS or SUBIMAGOES.
syrphian	a SYRPHID, a wasp-like fly.
syrphid	a family of flies that look like wasps. [Gk. syrphos, gnat].
tabanid	a kind of blood-sucking insect, the gadfly genus. [L. tabanus, gadfly].
tachina	as in tachina fly, bristly fly. No —S.
tachinid	any dipterous bristly fly of the family Tachinidae.
tipula	a crane-fly > TIPULAS. [L. tippula water-spider, water-bug].
treehopper	a kind of leaping insect.
tsetse tzetse tzetze	a small fly that transmits TRYPANOSOME parasites.
vermicule	a small worm or insect larva; also, a wormlike body.
whitefly	any of several insect pests belonging to the family Aleurodidae.
zebub zimb	an Ethiopian dipterous insect. [Amharic, a fly].

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