(1) Moments later, explosive charges blasted free two tungsten blocks, to shift the balance of the probe so it could fly itself to a prearranged landing spot .
(2) Only two aviators were permanently removed from flying duties due to glaucoma.
(3) This reduction is produced by medial displacement of the cerci, a movement the animal performs naturally during flying.
(4) In October, an episode of South Park saw the whole town go gluten-free (the stuff, it was discovered, made one’s penis fly off).
(5) As yet there is no evidence that the occurrence of savanna flies in the rain forest zone of Liberia was of epidemiological significance.
(6) Aircraft pilots Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Getting paid to have your head in the clouds.’ Photograph: CTC Wings Includes: Flight engineers and flying instructors Average pay before tax: £90,146 Pay range: £66,178 (25th percentile) to £97,598 (60th percentile).
(7) Discovery of this vectorhost-parasite system in the Americas, and the localization of promastigote flagellates (leptomonads) in the hindgut of the vector, should assist in clarifying interpretative problems associated with infection of wild-caught flies in studies on leishmaniasis in the Americas and elsewhere.
(8) Meanwhile, in the US, Ellen DeGeneres , who is 56 and came out in the 90s, is still flying the lesbian flag on TV.
(9) It flies in the face of everything I believe and everything I stand for.” On a day of tension within the party, the former Labour leader Ed Miliband called for activists to stop abusing opposition MPs who were backing airstrikes.
(10) An international team led by Luciano Iess at the Sapienza University in Rome inferred the existence of the ocean after taking a series of exquisite measurements made during three fly-bys between April 2010 and May 2012, which brought the Cassini spacecraft within 100km of the surface of Enceladus.
(11) Histopathology examination from the margin of the ulcerative area confirmed the diagnosis of basal cell carcinoma, which was infested secondarily with larvae of flies.
(12) All the flies were collected from a breeding site inside an abandoned cement building.
(13) "There were around 50 attackers, heavily armed in three vehicles, and they were flying the Shebab flag," Maisori added, speaking from the town, where several buildings including hotels, restaurants, banks and government offices were razed to the ground.
(14) • Gaddafi's many eccentricities, including phobias about flying over water and staying above ground floor level.
(15) Police told him he had been placed on the US no-fly list, although he had never in his life been accused of breaking any law.
(16) Flies were observed to lack strong host specificity.
(17) It encodes a homeobox gene closely related to the developmentally regulated homeotic genes of flies and mammals.
(18) Photograph: Geektime The same developer’s Red Bouncing Ball Spikes game has also been doing well on the App Store, although as yet Flying Cyrus fever hasn’t spread to Android – the game has been installed less than 5,000 times according to its Google Play store page.
(19) "What I want to do is to fly 100% of the schedule and to remove any uncertainty.
(20) It is present throughout development and is as abundant in embryos as in larvae and adult flies.
Horsefly
Definition:
(n.) Any dipterous fly of the family Tabanidae, that stings horses, and sucks their blood.
(n.) The horse tick or forest fly (Hippobosca).
Example Sentences:
(1) Potential horsefly intermediate hosts collected in the enzootic area included Hybomitra rhombica osburni, H. tetrica, H. metabola, Chrysops noctifer pertinax and Atylotus incisuralis.
(2) That information together with our observations suggest that segregation of infected horses (usually defined as at least 200 yards from susceptible horses) as a control measure for EIA may not be an adequate safeguard against transmission in areas where horseflies are numerous.
(3) In 1 of 7 transmission trials, a single horsefly transmitted EIA virus from an acutely infected pony to a susceptible pony.
(4) The knowledge accumulated in the course of studies of bloodsucking dipterans: mosquitoes, horseflies, Heleidae, midges in the Urals and the adjacent territories is reviewed.
(5) (3) There is a time link between the rate of sero-conversion and the variations in activity of the horsefly population.
(6) Groups of horseflies isolated for 3, 10, or 30 minutes before refeeding transmitted EIA virus, whereas those isolated for 4 or 24 hours did not.
(7) After statistical analysis, this space-time study showed that: (1) There is a significant positive geographical correlation between the rate of incidence of BLV infection and the density of the horsefly population.
(8) Spiroplasmas have been isolated previously from a number of blood-sucking arthropods, including ticks, horseflies, and deerflies.
(9) The average number being 120-300 mosquitoes and 50 horseflies per hour, the milking qualities in the cattle decreased by 6.2%, the milk fat content by 11.8%.
(10) Seven mosquito species and 18 horsefly species were observed to be attacking the cattle.
(11) A parallel entomological study was run over the same period, using continuous trapping, in order to determine both the density and variations of horsefly (Tabanus spp.)
(12) However, this protection period was not achieved for horseflies.
(13) Data from field studies indicate that the home range or flight distance of horseflies may exceed 4 miles.
(14) In some ways, however, chirps are a Trojan horsefly, a way to sneak bugs into American diets and transform sceptics into insectivores.
(15) 13,924 mosquitoes, 75 horseflies and 60 blackflies were processed in 1973.
(16) Blood-feeding success of female horseflies, Hybomitra expollicata Pandellé and Tabanus bromius L. (Diptera: Tabanidae), was studied.
(17) Dipterous blood-sucking insects (horseflies, black flies, gnats, midges) have negative impacts on the performance of draught horses in forest enterprises.
(18) Microsporidia of the genus Ameson were recorded from larvae of horseflies of the genus Hybomitra in Karelia.