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After they become flies, they prey principally on the class of insects termed lepidoptera, and diptera of Linneus.
The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes Erasmus Darwin 1766
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Last week, for instance, both sides were said to be chasing after the lepidoptera that is known as David Brooks, author of The Social Animal, a book about how our unconscious minds can make us successful sample sentence: "He was tall and since one study estimated that each inch of height corresponds to $6,000 of annual salary in contemporary America, that matters".
Why drown Ken Clarke in this tidal wave of phony anger? | Rachel Cooke 2011
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The specimen will become part of the museum's lepidoptera collection.
Half male, half female butterfly steals the show at Natural History Museum 2011
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As the door opened, the much darker and slicker oligochaeta slithered into the lepidoptera home.
Caterpillars in love. Khaver Siddiqi 2010
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Will you come upstairs, Dr. Watson, and inspect my collection of lepidoptera?
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It wasnt the time of year for Monarchs, the migratory lepidoptera that gave Pacific Grove its subtitle of Butterfly Town, U.S.A., and Kathryn Dance wondered what kind it was.
Roadside Crosses Jeffery Deaver 2009
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It wasnt the time of year for Monarchs, the migratory lepidoptera that gave Pacific Grove its subtitle of Butterfly Town, U.S.A., and Kathryn Dance wondered what kind it was.
Roadside Crosses Jeffery Deaver 2009
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It wasnt the time of year for Monarchs, the migratory lepidoptera that gave Pacific Grove its subtitle of Butterfly Town, U.S.A., and Kathryn Dance wondered what kind it was.
Roadside Crosses Jeffery Deaver 2009
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It wasnt the time of year for Monarchs, the migratory lepidoptera that gave Pacific Grove its subtitle of Butterfly Town, U.S.A., and Kathryn Dance wondered what kind it was.
Roadside Crosses Jeffery Deaver 2009
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It wasnt the time of year for Monarchs, the migratory lepidoptera that gave Pacific Grove its subtitle of Butterfly Town, U.S.A., and Kathryn Dance wondered what kind it was.
Roadside Crosses Jeffery Deaver 2009
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