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...Back to the Smithsonian in Washington he hastened. There Entomologist Charles Henry Tyler Townsend examined the Shannon fly, pronounced it the missing link between botfly and parasitic fly, a hitherto unknown phenomenon, a botfly with bristles. Entomologist Shannon's find, enthused Entomologist Townsend, is "the most important oestromuscoid discovery of the 20th Century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Bristled Botfly | 11/14/1932 | See Source »

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