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deer fly
lipoptena cervi latin

A distinguishing characteristic of a deer fly is patterned gold or green eyes.

"One good thing about it is that it's so tiny the deer flies haven't discovered it yet.

Next come strawberry flies, then the deer flies and the gnats.

A summer plague of green-eyed deer flies raises welts on bare skin.

Horse flies and deer flies can bite people and animals.

The primary vectors are ticks and deer flies, but the disease can also be spread through other arthropods.

The deer flies are simply terrible.

Felix flinched and swatted at a deer fly's sting.

Hikers should also come with insect repellent in the summer, as deer flies, ticks, and mosquitoes are common.

Deer flies are a genus that belongs to the family commonly called horse-flies (Tabanidae).

However, to humans it is considerably less harmful than deer flies (Chrysops), which bite much more vigorously.

Rather, tularemia is caused by contact with infected animals or vectors such as ticks, mosquitos, and deer flies.

Insects swarmed the area , and the men were constantly assaulted by mosquitoes, deer flies and other annoying, biting pests.

The drawbacks, though, are pesky, persistent deer flies and deer, which ate nearly all her husband's prize rose bushes before he built an electric fence around them.

The Cumberland County marshes also boast "greenheads, strawberry flies, deer flies, nosee'ums, chiggers, ticks," he says with perverse pride.

As he worked, he swatted black flies and deer flies and dreaded the thought that Ma or Pa would decide that the privy needed similar treatment.

There might even be a box of mixed insects--yellow jackets, mosquitoes, ticks, jiggers, and deer flies--but maybe that would be carrying misery a bit far.

The common outdoor flies include the black flies, the deer flies, the horse flies, the hover flies, the crane flies and some muscoids.

It may not be quite as quiet or have quite as many birds as the one Pete Dunne found, but then, it may have fewer deer flies.

Apart from the common name "horse-flies", broad categories of biting, bloodsucking Tabanidae are variously known as breeze flies, clegs or clags, deer flies, gadflies, or zimbs.

Sweating in the blazing sun, soaking in a torrential downpour, fighting the deer flies and blisters may not be everyone's idea of a good time, but it sure beats selling life insurance.

Some species, such as deer flies and the Australian March flies, are known for being extremely noisy during flight, though clegs, for example, fly quietly and bite with little warning.

The young larvae develop in horseflies of the genus Chrysops (deer flies, yellow flies), including the species C. dimidiata and C. silacea, which infect humans by biting them.

Although other species of ticks, mosquitoes, deer flies and horse flies have been shown to harbor the Lyme spirochete, there is little evidence so far that they have transmitted the spirochete to humans.

Deer flies (also known as yellow flies, or stouts in Atlantic Canada) are flies in the genus Chrysops of the family Tabanidae that can be pests to cattle, horses, and humans.

Both males and females of Lipoptena cervi consume blood from their hosts, feeding lasts 15 to 25 minutes.

Remains of Lipoptena cervi have been found on Ötzi, the Stone Age mummy from the Schnalstal glacier in South Tyrol.