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Bombyliidae
(redirected from Bee flies)

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Bombyliidae [‚bäm·bə′lī·ə‚dē]
(invertebrate zoology)
The bee flies, a family of dipteran insects in the suborder Orthorrhapha.


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When the bee flies away, the stinger tears away from its body, creating an injury that causes the bee to die.
At that time, Evenhuis was studying a group of so-called bee flies and had found several new species, most in the genus Phthiria.
With three BUZZ symbols, a bee flies out of the hive and then picks one of the five words in the JUMBLE puzzle.
 
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