They used to say that he could almost make a horse fly.'

Horse flies are larger, grey or black in colour, and their wings do not have spots.

The whole beach is over run with vicious green-headed horse flies.

The woman could make a horse fly like Pegasus.

Adult horse flies can be found in July and August.

Horse fly is the most widely-used name for members of the tabanidae family.

It’s unknown if the rare species is a bloodsucker like many female horse flies.

Sickened, I saw fragments of man and horse fly.

While having second thoughts the night before the race, Don is visited by his father who has been reincarnated as a horse fly.

Anyone who has ever been bitten by a mosquito, horse fly or bee knows how painful it can be.

The microfilariae, which were just under the surface of the skin, are small enough to be ingested whole by the horse fly.

Asaphomyia is a genus of horse fly in the family Tabanidae.

Then there's Scaptia beyonceae, a horse fly with a splendid big yellow bottom.

Not so with horse flies and black flies.

Today, deer are often the unharmed hosts of the parasites, which transmitted through horse flies.

You plague me worse than horse flies.

Female horse flies and deer flies are active feeders during the day.

This 'horse fly' is present in most of Europe and in the Near East.

Horse flies and deer flies can bite people and animals.

Hybomitra frontalis was the most abundant horse fly feeding on man, and comprised 74.2% of this group.

Russian horse flies are huge and carnivorous.

After Bugs returns to the air, the bemused Smith and his horse fly into the sky with their own airplane.

Although often considered a pest, many species of horse fly are important pollinators of plants, said Lessard.

Horse flies and deer flies have iridescent, brightly coloured eyes.

The horse guard wasp acts as a natural biological control, helping to keep horse fly populations down.

Both of us were batting away horse-flies and other unpleasant swarming insects.

Other flies, such as horse-flies, also can cause mechanical transmission of trypanosomes.

Other sources state that the name comes from Shiraunai meaning Horse-flies are common here.

In Australia, this term refers to the horse-flies, an unrelated dipteran family.

They panted, shook their heads to free them from horse-flies, and then moved slowly about in the cooling shade.

Deer flies are a genus that belongs to the family commonly called horse-flies (Tabanidae).

It is transmitted by horse-flies.

As Shannow approached he saw horse-flies settling on the gelding's hind quarters, yet the animal's tail was still.

Horse-flies (Tabanidae)

Experiments have suggested that the stripes polarize light in such a way that it discourages biting horse-flies in a manner not shown with other coat patterns.

Apart from the common name "horse-flies", broad categories of biting, bloodsucking Tabanidae are variously known as breeze flies, clegs or clags, deer flies, gadflies, or zimbs.

The vectors of E. schneideri are blood-feeding Horse-flies of the family Tabanidae, genera Hybomitra, Tabanus, or Silvius.

This form is caused by Trypanosoma evansi (Steel 1885) Balbiani 1888, and is transmitted by horse-flies, and also by the vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus, in South-America.

Fred T. Jane's To Venus in Five Seconds (1897) is a satire and parody of the popular fiction of its era; it features Venusian natives that blend the characteristics of elephants and horse-flies.

The gadfly, a type of fly plaguing cattle, typically ones belonging to either the family Tabanidae (horse-flies) or the family Oestridae (bot flies), appears in Greek mythology as a tormenter to Io, the heifer maiden.

The rhino is also known to be vulnerable to the blood disease surra, which can be spread by horse-flies carrying parasitic trypanosomes; in 2004, all five rhinos at the Sumatran Rhinoceros Conservation Centre died over an 18-day period after becoming infected by the disease.

It is a dreary region, which man dearly disputes with tipulae, gnats, mosquitos, horse-flies, and millions of microscopic insects which are not visible to the naked eye; but, although they are not seen, they make themselves felt by their intolerable stinging, to which the most callous Siberian hunters have never been able to inure themselves.

This attempt to find perfection with every new poem has, according to Mario Vargas Llosa who used Varela's poem Ternera acosada por tábanos (Calf tortured by horse-flies) as a notable example of her philosophy, "the quality of heroes from ancient myths who die, but fight to the very last moment anyway."

The various species of Tabanidae range from medium-sized to very large in size.

He also studied insect galls and worked on the Tabanidae.

Silvius is a genus of fly in the family Tabanidae.

The Tabanidae are true flies, that is to say, members of the insect order Diptera.

The main pollinators are flies in the families Tabanidae and Nemestrinidae.

Horse-fly is the most widely-used English common name for members of the family Tabanidae.

His thesis, naturally, was on the Tabanidae of Panama.

In spite of their roles as pests, Tabanidae also are important pollinators of some flowers.

Family Tabanidae.

The life cycle may be complex with various intermediate hosts and vectors including Stomoxys and Tabanidae.

Chrysops caecutiens, common name splayed deer fly, is a species of horse fly belonging to the family Tabanidae.

Philoliche longirostris is a fly of the Tabanidae family native to India, specifically the Himalayas.

He worked mainly on Tabanidae, Omphralidae, Therevidae and Conopidae.

The horseflies (Diptera: Tabanidae) of the Ethiopian Region.

Predators of the deer fly (and other Tabanidae) include nest-building wasps and hornets, dragonflies, and some birds including the killdeer.

Much like male mosquitoes, male Tabanidae are not ectoparasitic and lack the mouth parts (mandibles) that the females use in drawing the blood on which they feed.

The Volutine stoneyian tabanid fly, Stonemyia volutina was a species of fly in family Tabanidae.

Loa loa is transmitted by several species of tabanid flies (Order: Diptera; Class: Tabanidae).

Stratiomyidae, Xylophagidae, Coenomyiidae, Tabanidae, Leptididae, Acroceridae.

Encouraged by his faculty advisor, Professor Joseph Bequaert, Fairchild chose the Tabanidae, a family of insects known as "horse flies".

This is stocked with dozens of insects, predominantly large flies (Tabanidae, Syrphidae), which provide the larva with food for its two-week development to the imago stage.

The venation is much as in Rhagionidae, Tabanidae and Therevidae; the radial R is always four-branched, with R2+3 unbranched.

Among the types of insects consumed are many families of beetles, wasps and ants, flies (families Tabanidae and Asilidae), bugs, and caterpillars.

For females to risk their lives on blood sucking while males abstain, is not a strategy limited to the mosquitoes; it also occurs in some other insect families, such as the Tabanidae.

Apart from the common name "horse-flies", broad categories of biting, bloodsucking Tabanidae are variously known as breeze flies, clegs or clags, deer flies, gadflies, or zimbs.