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Definition of Musca domestica

1. Noun. Common fly that frequents human habitations and spreads many diseases.

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Musca Domestica

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Literary usage of Musca domestica

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1861)
"... Worm which infests the common Home-Fly (musca domestica) in Bombay. By HJ CARTER, Esq., F.KS. [Plate IA figs. 1-4.] IN November last (1859), ..."

2. The Animal Parasites of Man by Harold Benjamin Fantham, Maximilian Gustav Christian Carl Braun (1916)
"musca domestica, Linn. (Common House-fly). It is not only on account of ... I have never failed to find a few musca domestica in houses during the winter. ..."

3. The House Fly, Disease Carrier: An Account of Its Dangerous Activities and by Leland Ossian Howard (1911)
"THE MITE ENEMIES OF musca domestica Many flies of different species are often noticed to have small red mites attached to their bodies. ..."

4. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology by Cambridge Entomological Club (1909)
"'s, 12 9's, reared in confinement from 8 puparia of musca domestica, Sep. ... 28th from a puparium of musca domestica, the progeny of a single female; ..."

5. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences by Washington Academy of Sciences (1915)
"L.) = Musca erythro- cephala Meigen, which species is congeneric with vomitoria L.) musca domestica L. and the ... Genotype, musca domestica Linné, Syst. ..."

6. Sanitary entomology: The Entomology of Disease, Hygiene and Sanitation by William Dwight Pierce (1921)
"Scott (1917) isolated it from the bodies of musca domestica. ... Herms (1915) proved by experiment that musca domestica can carry great numbers of this ..."

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