Definition of pomace fly Pomace fly
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| pomace fly - any of numerous small insects whose larvae feed on fruits | ||
| fruit fly | ||
| dipteran, dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing | ||
| apple maggot, railroad worm, rhagoletis pomonella larvae bore into and feed on apples | ||
| ceratitis capitata, medfly, mediterranean fruit fly small black-and-white fly that damages citrus and other fruits by implanting eggs that hatch inside the fruit | ||
| drosophila, drosophila melanogaster small fruit fly used by Thomas Hunt Morgan in studying basic mechanisms of inheritance | ||
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