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 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.
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 .
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Translations for buffalo gnat