Small blackish stout-bodied biting fly having aquatic larvae; sucks the blood of birds as well as humans and other mammals.
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Examples for "blackfly "
Examples for "blackfly "
1 There are particularly abundant crops of hefty blackfly and greenfly this year.
2 The blackfly and mosquito attack both man and beast in maddening millions.
3 Tribes of mosquito and blackfly come to Judah and bleed him terribly.
4 Tells about numerous blackfly bites, using insect repellent and not seeing a single fish.
5 It was only nine miles over easy terrain, but the blackfly made it a torment.
1 Buffalo gnats and tsetse were very troublesome on this march, owing to the numerous herds of game in the vicinity.
2 As it was, she and Charity were both engulfed in a gritty brown cloud of powdered earth, undefined filth and bothersome, ever-present buffalo gnats .
1 But the black fly is at the bottom of the moral scale.
2 After a minute, a large black fly buzzed close to his head.
3 A black fly lit on her cheek and she swatted it away savagely.
4 Vaylo batted away a black fly and turned his thoughts to the now.
5 A black fly kept buzzing around her bony ankles, dodging her mad slaps.
6 A great grayish- black fly was slowing birthing itself from the collapsing remains of his cookie.
7 Mosquito, black fly , sand fly-theyare all alike cannibals.
8 The doctor's hand flapped madly at a black fly that was buzzing near his eyeball.
9 Every bump the larva of a black fly .
10 Not at Coldmoat. A fat black fly buzzed around his head and lighted on his arm.
11 The black fly darts at you quietly, settles down on an un-get-at-able spot, and sucks your blood.
12 And again: "Gnats...in my way of thinking, are much worse than the black fly or mosquito."
13 In either case, the plants must be watched carefully for black fly , which can be kept off with Aphine.
14 What the Malays call demum is not the genuine malaria, but probably due to the merotu, a troublesome little black fly .
15 The St. Regis and St. Francis Indians, although born and reared in the woods, by no means make light of the black fly .
16 His first interview with the black fly left his face in such a condition that he was glad he lived in a wilderness.
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