Insects {fly} (Diptera) can have vision detectors for looming, moving patches, angles, and velocities. In scorpions and flies, membrane lens forms over visual pit to focus light.
Mosquitos {anopheles mosquito} (Culicidae) can transmit malaria.
Flies {blue bottle fly} can be shiny and blue.
Flies {dragon fly} can be large, with four large wings.
Nocturnal flies {firefly} can make light.
Flies {fruitfly} (Drosophila) can have red eyes. Attention affects neurons [Heisenberg and Wolf, 1984] [Tang and Guo, 2001] [van Swinderen and Greenspan, 2003]. Fruitflies can learn by trace or delay conditioning [Tully and Quinn, 1985]. Fruitflies have halteres balancing wings. Larvae eat fruit.
Fireflies have larvae {glowworm}.
Large flies {horsefly} have females that suck blood.
Black flies {housefly} can be small.
firefly {lightning bug}.
Female flies {mosquito} can suck blood.
African flies {tsetse fly} can suck blood and transmit sleeping sickness.
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