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Empid flies, or dance flies, have a wonderful long proboscis that they use to suck fluids out of the bodies of other insects.
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Raspberry flowers have just opened, and the solitary B. pratorum was methodically working its way along the hedgerow, visiting every flower. If it accidentally revisited a flower it had already been to, the mistake was recognised in less than a second.
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The Meadow Foxtail I showed last week has flowered.
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