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Several species of Bibionidae are very common in the adult state during the spring and early summer in Britain, but their larvae seem to have been very little studied. The latter frequently occur in large numbers together, and are from time to time reported to have caused damage to various crops.
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H. M. Morris (1921) studied this question.
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