In her eyes, which see farther than ours, the Eristalis is an odious dipteron, a lover of corruption, and nothing more.
"More Hunting Wasps"
J. Henri Fabre
If I do not employ a bell-glass or keep an assiduous watch, rarely does the shrewish dipteron fail to alight upon my patient and explore him with her proboscis.
"The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles"
Jean Henri Fabre