"muck fly" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1751, Tobias Smollett, chapter 103, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, volume IV",
          "text": "[T]he naturalist […] next appealed to the patron's approbation for a curious disquisition he had made, touching the procreation of muck flies, in which he had laid down a curious method of collecting, preserving and hatching the eggs of these insects, even in the winter, by certain modifications of artificial heat.",
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          "ref": "1940, Erling Christophersen, translated by RL Benham, Tristan da Cunha, The Lonely Isle, page 200",
          "text": "Less appetizing were the hordes of green, shiny muck-flies which were to be found all over the island, even amid the thickest tussock.",
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        "A fly found on, or associated with, dirt or dung."
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        "(obsolete) A fly found on, or associated with, dirt or dung."
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        "(obsolete) A fly found on, or associated with, dirt or dung."
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