Anthomyia Pluvialis Small 141×320 Medium 281×640 Large 450×1024 Download Tiff Original 1055×2400 | (753.7 KB) Description "They are the miners of the vegetable world. The thistle often nourishes them." Keywords bugs life stages, flies gnats and mosquitoes diptera, insects Galleries Other Orders of Insects Source: Hazlitt Alva Cuppy PH.D., Editor Beauties and Wonders of Land and Sea (Springfield, OH: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, 1895)