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| | Natural History Magazine Feature |
 | | The flower and the fly are caught in a cycle of coevolution: plant pollination benefits from long floral tubes, because nectar-seeking insects must press their bodies closely against pollen-bearing floral parts to reach nectar pools at the end of the floral tube. |
 | | The most important trait in the pollination syndrome of the long-nosed fly (and indeed, in all pollination syndromes of long-nosed insects) is a deep, tubular flower or floral spur. |
 | | The nemestrinids, or tangle-veined flies (which include the meganosed fly), feed solely on nectar, whereas the tabanids, or horseflies, feed mostly on nectar, though female tabanids have separate mouthparts to suck blood for their developing eggs. |
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