A moderate breeze kept the worst of the mosquitoes and blackflies away.

He had, I noticed, a haze of blackflies of his own.

Cawley peered at him as if Teddy's face were sprouting blackflies.

It is transmitted to humans by blackflies breeding along fast-flowing tropical rivers and streams.

Bergman does not mention the power of the blackflies.

It's spring in Algonquin Bay and the blackflies aren't the only ones out for blood.

Like bloated blackflies, swarming around the old lady's corpse.

You'll be eaten alive by blackflies.

The large numbers of insects (mosquitoes, blackflies) may also have harmful effects on populations adapting to the new environment.

I was tired and hungry, my face disfigured and blistered by the unremitting attentions of the blackflies that rose in swarms from the river.

Blackflies and mosquitoes were reputed to have driven many of the early Canadian explorers insane.

"We'll get showing it next spring," she said, "before the blackflies hatch out.

"The blackflies are gone and there's enough of a breeze to keep the mosquitoes away." He looked at her hopefully.

There are particularly abundant crops of hefty blackfly and greenfly this year.

The blackfly and mosquito attack both man and beast in maddening millions.

Tribes of mosquito and blackfly come to Judah and bleed him terribly.