What is "deerfly"

Usage examples of "deerfly".

The nude, tortured man jerked reflexively as a deerfly bit his cheek, and the movement almost made him lose his precarious balance.

He served Bink a pleasant meal of brown bread and milk--from his private breadfruit orchard and deerfly stable, respectively--and chatted almost sociably.

Bending over, he saw that it was a deerfly lit up like an ember, but frosty green instead of orange.

With an oath, the hulking humanoid bent to squash the offending bug, but just then he was bitten by a large deerfly and stung by a bumblebee that had alighted on his mangy shoulder.

She swatted a deerfly on her haunch and picked testily at the ground with one forehoof.

There was an odor like that of a hesitant deerfly at the edge of a glade.

Boiling clouds of pestering gnats and biting deerflies retreated before the invaders, then circled back to dive-bomb and torment at every step.

Snakelike vines hung all about them, and they swatted at the stinging deerflies and mosquitoes.

During these brief respites, Anna swatted deerflies obsessed with the backs of her thighs and split her concentration between enjoying the view and hiding her physical weakness from her compatriots.

Despite the insecticide, horseflies, deerflies and mosquitoes followed.

Horseflies and deerflies took themselves off to wherever it was they went during the dark hours but the mosquitoes remained, a cloud of mindless hunger hovering over the camp.

There were deerflies and horseflies and dragonflies, looking like winged miniatures of their species.