Definition of Tachinids

1. tachinid [n] - See also: tachinid

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tachinids

tache cerebrale
tache laiteuse
tache meningeale
tache noire
tacheometer
tacheometers
taches
tachetic
tachhydrite
tachi-seki
tachiai
tachimochi
tachina
tachina fly
tachinid
tachinids (current term)
tachionic
tachism
tachisme
tachismes
tachisms
tachist
tachiste
tachistes
tachistesthesia
tachistoscope
tachistoscopes
tachistoscopic
tachists
tacho

Literary usage of Tachinids

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

1. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology by Cambridge Entomological Club (1909)
"No tachinids resulted although the dead beetle was kept in the breeding jar for several weeks. A number of records have been made of tachinid rearings from ..."

2. Biological Control of Insects and Mites: An Introduction to Beneficial by Daniel L. Mahr, Nino M. Ridgway (1993)
"Many foreign species of tachinids have been introduced into North America to suppress ... The life cycles of many tachinids have been studied in detail. ..."

3. Sessional Papers by Ontario Legislative Assembly (1917)
"CAESAR: I wonder if Mr. Harrington has reared those tachinids. MR. ... I do not mean that those Mr. Harrington saw were not tachinids, but all I reared were ..."

4. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington by Entomological Society of Washington (1914)
"It appears from recently collected tachinids that nocturnal habits may be more ... Other nocturnal tachinids have recently been collected at light at Forest ..."

5. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1901)
"... though elaborated not in that species, but on some of its allies. Probably the tachinids have grown up along with the ..."

6. Notes on Some Fijian Insects by Frederick Muir (1906)
"In this Mr. CHT Townsend gives the results of observations on the habits of tachinids, gathered from the experience of himself and others in rearing ..."

7. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1894)
"... are a genus of unusually large and well developed tachinids, some of which (fera and ferax for example) are simply ordinary ..."

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