The show was set in 18th-century Canada, and featured the twisted Canadian history where Benny "Blackfly" Broughton (Ron James), a jack-of-all-trades of colonial Canada is joined by the by-the-book British officer, Corporal Entwhistle (Colin Mochrie).
Featuring characters like Blackfly's boss — the rowdy, penny-pinching Scottish storekeeper MacTavish (James Kee); Misty Moon (Cheri Maracle), the wise Native barkeep who loves watching the white man blow his money on whiskey; the deranged and nutty Colonel Boyle (Richard Donat); and his daughter — Lady Hammond (Shauna Black), the hot-blooded princess of privilege.
The bane of moose and man, flflies of the genus Simulium (order Diptera:family Simuliidae) are known to have made many humans and animals jump in nearby lakes up to their necks to avoid blood-letting bites.
Avoiding the competition and lower dissolved oxygen concentrations of the slower backwaters, flfly larvae cling to submerged rocks with an anchoring patch of spun silk and a highly modified posterior circlet of hooks.
As filter feeders, flfly larvae capture bacteria and diatoms with feeding nets constructed from a pair of cephalic fans and a sticky secretion produced by the cibarial glands.
1981), citrus flfly was detected in Palm Beach and Dade counties in 1977; Lee, Highlands and Brevard counties in 1979; Manatee County in 1986; Polk County in 1989; Marion and Volusia counties in 1991; and Alachua County in 1992 (Nguyen, unpublished data).
Citrus flfly infests over 300 host plants, but citrus (Figure 1) is the most suitable for large population development.
Population density of the citrus flfly, Aleurocanthus woglumi Ashby (Homoptera:Aleyrodidae), and its parasites in urban Florida in 1979-81.
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