sciara

Definitions of sciara
  1. noun
    minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings
    synonyms: fungus gnat, sciarid
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    types:
    armyworm
    larva of fungus gnat that feed on cereals and other grains; they march in large companies in regular order when the food is exhausted
    type of:
    dipteran, dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects
    insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing
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