Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various bristly, usually grayish dipteran flies of the family Tachinidae, the larvae of which are parasitic on caterpillars and other insects.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
tachinarian .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any
insect of the family Tachinidae, especially the tachina fly
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin Tachinidae, family name, from Tachina, type genus, from Greek takhinē, feminine of takhinos, swift, from takhos, speed.]
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Examples
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Results of the experiments described above demonstrated that tachinid parasitoids and Tiphia sp. were more abundant in diverse bean plots than in bean monoculture.
1. Designing integrated pest management for sustainable and productive futures. 1992
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The effects of strip-cropping haricot bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) with maize (Zea mays L.) under weedy and weed-free conditions on the abundance of tachinid parasitoids and a predatory wasp that are associated with African bollworm were studied at Awassa, southern
1. Designing integrated pest management for sustainable and productive futures. 1992
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