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Mosquitoes, house-flies and roaches will have been practically exterminated.
Archive 2007-04-01 2007
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Inevitably, some will ask what the point was of printing all those diaries listing the prices of foodstuffs, those reviews of minor novels or those bits and pieces of BBC business ( "Dear Professor Buxton, I wonder whether you would care to do a talk for the Indian Section of the BBC on the subject of house-flies ...").
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It informs us that worms and caterpillars are begotten from dew on cabbage - leaves, house-flies from wet wood, maggots from rot - ting flesh, moths from woolens, anchovies from sea - foam, mice from river-mud, etc. General — as distinct from scientific — literature, expressing more faithfully popular beliefs, offered a greater number of species imagined to be born spontaneously, and the cases that it described were often more fantastic.
SPONTANEOUS GENERATION ARAM VARTANIAN 1968
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Many people think that house-flies can bite and will tell you that they have been bitten by them.
Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane
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Minute red mites such as attack the house-flies and other insects sometimes attack adult mosquitoes, but they are rarely very abundant.
Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane
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For they used this time getting their meals; and whenever they were doing that, they were working for the owner of the barn, paying their rent for the house-lot on the wall by catching grass insects over the meadow, and mosquitoes and horseflies and house-flies by the hundreds, and many another pest, too.
Bird Stories Robert J. [Illustrator] Sim
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The islands are well wooded, and amongst the trees by night, through the whole island, did show themselves an infinite swarm of fiery worms flying in the air, whose bodies, being no larger than common house-flies, made such a show and light as if every twig or tree had been a burning candle.
Adventures in Southern Seas A Tale of the Sixteenth Century George Forbes
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Believes that house-flies convey these diseases from the excrement of infected infants.
Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane
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He eats mosquitoes and house-flies and the insects that cause most of the worm - eaten apples.
Friends and Helpers Sarah J. Eddy
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Over one hundred posters illustrating the danger of house-flies have been exhibited in the Enfield district.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 25, 1919 Various
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