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Sucks the blood of birds as well as humans and other mammals
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blackfly
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Blackfly , black-fly , or black fly may refer to: Black fly , a fly of the family Simuliidae Blackfly (TV series) , a 2001 Canadian comedy series Black bean aphid ( Aphis fabae )
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. 1 A black or dark green aphid that is a common pest of agricultural crops. 2 Any of various small black bloodsucking fly of the family ''(taxlink Simuliidae family noshow=1)''. n. 1 A black or dark green aphid that is a common pest of agricultural ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
black fly \black fly\, blackfly \blackfly\, (Zo["o]l.) In the United States, a small, venomous, two-winged fly of the genus Simulium of several species, exceedingly abundant and troublesome in the northern forests; -- called also buffalo gnat . The larv[ae] ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. blackish aphid that infests e.g. beans and sugar beets [syn: bean aphid , Aphis fabae ] small blackish stout-bodied biting fly having aquatic larvae; sucks the blood of birds as well as humans and other mammals [syn: black fly , buffalo gnat ]
Usage examples of blackfly.
He had been itching to ask that as badly as he did from flea and blackfly bites.
He had not yet forgiven her for the fact that she was so very good at seeming a sweet, harmless, and slightly eccentric lady of a certain age, most concerned with blackfly on roses and the current state of the village church restoration appeal.
It was only nine miles over easy terrain, but the blackfly made it a torment.
The first wave of blackflies had hatched from the snowmelt and the ponies were under assault.
More blackflies were hatching from the water, rising up in a buzzing mist.
He knew of large animals of the deep forest being driven mad by blackflies and midges, and now he understood how such an event could occur.
She winnowed away a cloud of blackflies with her handful of catalogues and envelopes.
Do you think our packs are allowed to suffer from fleas, or ticks, or the blackflies of the coursing season?
They stood and stared, slapping themselves as mosquitoes and blackflies bit their arms and legs.
Lootavek had said another time, during summer, when swarms of blackflies formed clouds in the sky and even the dogs stayed indoors.
Thus it was that I was to be found, on a hot morning in mid-June, laboring sweatily up a steep but modest eminence called Becket Mountain, in a haze of repellent-resistant blackflies, and patting my pocket from time to time to check that my knife was still there.
The blackflies that descended in thick clouds upon anything that moved had died down enough to venture outdoors.
They were a greater danger than the blackflies and mosquitoes they had been intended to control.
Thousands on thousands of aphides (you might know them as blackfly or greenfly) sucked the sap from leaves and plant stems, excreting honeydew for ants and others to feed on.
Longtusk saw that it was a mist of life: vast clouds of insects, mosquitoes and blackflies and warble flies and botflies, that rose from the lakes to plague the great herbivores—including himself—and a dreamier cloud of ballooning spiders and wind-borne larvae, riding the breezes to a new land.