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B SUMMAR.Y
The dung fly
This paper gives an overview of the reproduc-
tive behaviour of the yellow dungfly. Some as-
pects of the species ecology is also covered,
such as population fluctuations and effect of
larvae competition on adult size. A short his-
torical account of research carried out earlier
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