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Definition of Harvest fly

1. Noun. Its distinctive song is heard during July and August.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Harvest Fly

Literary usage of Harvest fly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley (1859)
"harvest fly, a hemipterous insect, of the division homoptera (from having the wing covers of the same texture throughout), of the family ..."

2. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"harvest fly, a hemipterous insect, of the division homoptera (from having ... In the perfect state this harvest fly is of a black color, the anterior edge ..."

3. A Practical Dictionary of the English and German Languages by Felix Flügel, Johann Gottfried Flügel (1861)
"nerei,/. culture of trees; —geläutet, n. espalier ; —grille,/. Uni. harvest-fly, honey-thief; —grappe, /. clump, bunch, cluster, tuft of trees; ..."

4. Nature Stories for Young Readers: Animal Life by Florence Bass (1895)
"If that is too hard to say, you may call me a harvest fly. \ I do not like to be called a Locust. I will tell you why. ..."

5. Rural School Agriculture: Exercises for Use with Any Text-book of by Charles Wesley Davis (1907)
"Material needed: harvest fly, note-book. FIC. ~O DOG-DAY harvest fly NOTE.—This insect is known by its shrill cry while resting upon the boughs of trees. ..."

6. Stories of Insect Life by Mary Esther Murtfeldt, Clarence Moores Weed (1899)
"harvest fly, or Cicada. the harvest fly, or dog-day fly, or annual cicada (Fig. ... There are two broods of the common harvest fly, one of which appears one ..."

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