…a flying insect of a large order characterized by a single pair of transparent wings and sucking (and often also piercing) mouthparts. Flies are noted as vectors of disease…
…an opening at the crotch of a pair of pants, closed with a zipper or buttons and typically covered with a flap…
…designating a list, person, or category of people prevented from flying for security reasons…
…a bloodsucking fly of spider-like appearance, parasitic on bats and bearing live young…
…a squat, hairy, beelike fly that hovers to feed from flowers using its long tongue. Its larvae usually parasitize other insects, especially bees and wasps…
…ash produced in small dark flecks, typically from a furnace, and carried into the air…
…a small black fly, the female of which sucks blood and can transmit a number of serious human and animal diseases. Large swarms sometimes cause distress to livestock and humans…
…a hoverfly that resembles a bumblebee, with larvae that are pests of daffodil bulbs…
…a slender, two-winged fly with very long legs. The larva of some kinds is the leatherjacket…
…a fly that breeds in carrion, typically producing live young that are deposited on a carcass…
…denoting a package vacation that includes a flight and car rental at the destination…
…a river in Papua New Guinea—the country’s longest—that flows for 750 miles (1,200 km) from the border with Indonesia into the Gulf of Papua…
…a very small black fly whose larvae are a serious pest of cereal crops and golf-course turf…
…a flattened bloodsucking fly that may have reduced or absent wings and typically spends much of its life on one individual of the host species…
…a dark slender fly whose larvae may cause serious damage to the roots of crops…
…a slender woodland insect with transparent wings and a long “neck” that allows the head to be raised above the body…
…a small fly whose larvae are a widespread pest of carrots, burrowing into the roots…
…a fly that often enters buildings in large numbers during the autumn while looking for a place to overwinter…
…a poisonous toadstool that has a red cap with fluffy white spots, growing particularly among birch trees. It contains hallucinogenic alkaloids and has long been used by the indigenous peoples of northeastern Siberia…
…a raised platform at the side of a stage that contains ropes and equipment for moving props and scenery. Also called fly floor…
