"canker fly" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1845 [1796], Edward Henry Noel, transl., Flower, Fruit and Thorn Pieces: Or, The Married Life, Death, and Wedding of the Advocate of the Poor, Firmian Stanislaus Sibenkas̈, translation of original by Jean Paul, page 240",
          "text": "Siebenkäs, in a voice of wrath, now turned bis seat of judgment into a penitent's stool for the Venner, abusing him as a canker-fly of female buds, a dove-hawk, a house-breaker of the treasures of marriage.",
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          "ref": "1866, Rowland Williams, The Hebrew Prophets Translated Afresh from the Original, page 21",
          "text": "And I requite to you the years which the locust ate, the canker-fly, and the fledged locust, and the young locust, my great host which I sent among you.",
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          "ref": "1910 [1831], anonymous translator, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, translation of original by Victor Hugo, page 176",
          "text": "That gnawing canker-fly, the printed book, sucks the life-blood out of the great stone pile.",
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          "ref": "1890, Great Britain. Foreign Office, Diplomatic and Consular Reports: Annual series, page 21",
          "text": "In many districts, moreover, the appearance of the \"canker\" fly had a very prejudicial effect upon the quality of the oil.",
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        "A fly that preys on fruit."
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        "(archaic) A fly that preys on fruit."
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