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Flies with Dr Erica McAlister

BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast

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Bee Flies Are Amazing

Bee flies are amazing on they caus they fly round it about march and april. Unlike the butterflies and moths, they can't curl this up. Theyre's some that have cu ov with some very old plants in south africa. So what's the difference then, between a fly probosis and a b probocis these have tongues. A case ho thers much more lapin, whereas it's still suctorial, but it's not quite the same mechanism. And at the end of the be flies mouth part e, they've generally got this tiny bit which is full of pseudo trokea, which is so that youker these channels which the liquid goes up

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