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| 17 | 213 | Most sting flies, or needle flies, as the men from the View more quotes about south">south call them, originate in the delta, and similar places, estuaries and such, as their eggs are laid on the stems of rence plants. |
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| 17 | 210 | "It is a needle fly," said a fellow. |
| 17 | 211 | "There is another," said a man. |
| 17 | 212 | "And another," said another. |
| 17 | 213 | Most sting flies, or needle flies, as the men from the south call them, originate in the delta, and similar places, estuaries and such, as their eggs are laid on the stems of rence plants. |
| 17 | 214 | As a result of the regularity of breeding and incubation times there tends, also, to be peak times for hatching. |
| 17 | 215 | These peak times are also in part, it is thought, a function of a combination of natural factors, having to do with conditions in the delta, such as temperature and humidity, and, in particular, the relative stability of such conditions. |
| 17 | 216 | Such hatching times, as might be supposed, are carefully monitored by rencers. |