Crossword clues for blackfly
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] are aquatic. It sucks the blood of birds as well as humans and other mammals.
A black plant louse, as the bean aphis ( Aphis fab[ae]), which infests e. g. beans and sugar beets; -- called also bean aphid.
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 crops. 2 Any of various small black bloodsucking fly of the family ''(taxlink Simuliidae family noshow=1)''.
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]
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)
Blackfly is a Canadian sitcom which ran on the Global Television Network for two seasons in 2001 and 2002. Although shot single-camera like most Canadian comedies, this series was shot on videotape and contains a laugh track rather than making use of the usual live audience because most scenes take place outdoors.
The show is set in 18th-century Canada back "in days when beaver fur was good as gold" and features a twisted " Blackadder meets F Troop"-style Canadian history in which Benny "Blackfly" Broughton ( Ron James), a Maritimes-born undersized but ambitious general jack-of-all-trades at the isolated Fort Simpson- Eaton on the colonial Canadian frontier, is joined by the prissy by-the-book upper class British officer Corporal Entwhistle ( Colin Mochrie) whom he is usually able to talk into his latest doomed-to-failure get-rich-quick scheme.
Other characters include Blackfly's boss at the Hudson's Bay Company-style trading post, the rowdy, penny-pinching Scottish storekeeper MacTavish (James Kee), Misty Moon ( Cheri Maracle), a wryly wise native barkeep who loves watching the white man blow his money on whisky at her Leg Hold Trap Bar between visits by her boisterous if distinctly anglophobic French Canadian voyageur lover Dijon ( Marcel Jeannin), tough but good-natured local tribal leader Chief Smack-Your-Face-In ( Lorne Cardinal), masochistic and desperate-to-be-martyred Jesuit priest Brother Jacques ( Stephen Coats), the deranged and drunken fort commander Colonel Boyle ( Richard Donat), and his buxom blond daughter Lady Hammond ( Shauna Black), the hot-blooded young princess of privilege who had no idea what she was getting into when she decided to join her father in Canada after becoming a widow.
Changes to the show during the second season included the arrival of Misty's nasty little witch of a mother Mugwump Moon ( Madeleine Bergeron) and the departure of Entwhistle who had inherited his twin brother's title and estate in England, although with his usual luck he found himself stuck back at the fort by the end of the series. The laugh track was removed as well, because James was displeased with the use of it in the first season.
The show was produced by Salter Street Films, and reruns began showing during the fall of 2009 on APTN.
The opening and closing theme was done by Blain Morris.
According to Ron James, the show was cancelled because of the two seasons suffered low ratings.
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.