flies

Related to flies: Fruit flies, House flies
See:
  • a fly on the wheel
  • a shut mouth catches no flies
  • as the crow flies
  • barfly
  • be dropping like flies
  • catch flies
  • catch more flies with honey than vinegar, one can
  • day the eagle flies
  • die like flies
  • die/drop/fall like flies
  • drink with the flies
  • drop like flies
  • drop like flies, to
  • fly a kite
  • fly across (something)
  • fly apart
  • fly away
  • fly beneath (the/someone's) radar
  • fly blind
  • fly by
  • fly by the seat of (one's) pants
  • fly high
  • fly in
  • fly in the face of (something)
  • fly in the teeth of (something)
  • fly into (someone or something)
  • fly into a rage
  • fly into a temper
  • fly into the face of danger
  • fly kites
  • fly light
  • fly off
  • fly off at a tangent
  • fly off the handle
  • fly out
  • fly out of (some place)
  • fly the coop
  • fly the flag
  • fly the nest
  • fly to (someone or something)
  • fly under (the/someone's) radar
  • fly up to (some place)
  • honey catches more flies than vinegar
  • how time flies
  • if it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, it is a duck
  • like flies to manure
  • lord of the flies
  • no flies on
  • no flies on (one)
  • no flies on one
  • no flies on somebody
  • straighten up and fly right
  • the day the eagle flies
  • the eagle flies
  • the fur flies
  • the way the crow flies
  • there are no flies on
  • there are no flies on someone
  • There's no flies on
  • there's no flies on him/her
  • time flies
  • time flies when you're having fun
  • when poverty comes in (at) the door, love flies out (of) the window
  • When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window
  • when the eagle flies
  • you (can) catch more flies with honey than (with) vinegar
  • you attract more flies with honey than vinegar
  • You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
  • you can catch more flies with honey than you can with vinegar
  • you will catch more flies with honey than (with) vinegar
References in periodicals archive
The main factor affecting population build-up of fruit flies in the tropics is fruit abundance and availability (Papadopoulos, 1999).
Occurrence and Seasonal Abundance of Fruit Fly, Bactrocera zonata Saunders (Diptera: Tephritidae) in Relation to Meteorological Factors
Stable flies love old wet hay bales, chicken litter, and any type of moist vegetation like old straw or grass clippings.
Shoo, fly: it can be a daily battle, but keeping flies from taking over is important
Emergency turns were much faster than the ones that flies make when no menace appears.
In a crisis, fruit flies do stunt turns: sophisticated tracking equipment reveals insects' deft moves
Dai did not use a variety of flies but had a selection of the ones he favoured in different sizes.
My lifelong love affair with the super Sun Fly; MASTERPIECE OF DECEPTION WAS CREATED BY DAI LEWIS angling
As SGHV replicates in the salivary gland in female flies, something also happens within the reproductive system.
House fly virus stops flies from reproducing
Filth flies feed and lay their eggs in trash, animal feces and decaying material.
Would you harm a fly? Pesky pests offer a fascinating, albeit odious, view of the insect world
There is a long held belief among engineers and biologists that micro flying robots that fly like airplanes and helicopters consume much more energy than micro robots that fly like advanced insects such as flies.
Micro robo flies can save up to 50 percent energy if they fly like helicopters
Small workshops showed new fly fishers how to make their own flies, how to tie their own line and how to cast.
Casting about for fun
"Solitude is an insect growth regulator that controls flies by stopping them where they star--in horse manure," explains Yemma.
Pfizer animal health's solitude IGR
The flies with no DJ-1[beta] had normal life spans and showed no neuronal degeneration.
PD gene and oxidative stress
Nevertheless, experts say, Click Mexicana flies in the face of the basic principles of the low-cost airline model.
Ready for takeoff: the low-cost model comes to Mexico as the government prepares to get out of the airline business
Fly-borne diseases and particularly summer mastitis could be a big threat to cattle producers this summer as entomologists predict an explosion of flies.
Explosion of flies predicted this month
Whether Pogo flies or fails will be extremely dependent on IT.
Will air taxis fly? Once bitter rivals, Don Burr and Robert Crandall team up to challenge the private jet industry
A total of 8.2% of flies caught outside a broiler house in Denmark had the potential to transmit Campylobacter jejuni to chickens, and hundreds of flies per day passed through the ventilation system into the broiler house.
Flies and Campylobacter infection of broiler flocks
4 JUL 1908 Louis Bleriot flies a monoplane for 5 minutes.
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