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IN reply to Dr. Bonavia's note on the above subject in NATURE for November 13 (p. 29), I beg to inform him that the larvæ of the house-fly are often internally parasitic on the larvæ of Lepidoptera. I have bred them in large numbers from Vanessa io and Salurnia carpini, also from other species more sparingly. Nor is this the cnly species of Diptera that infests Lepidoptera.
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PIERCE, F. Fly-Maggots Feeding, on Caterpillars. Nature 31, 82 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/031082a0
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