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[39] The "Blue Tail Fly" in the eponymous song was probably the mourning horsefly (Tabanus atratus), a tabanid with a blue-black abdomen common to the southeastern United States. [28] Paul Muldoon’s chapbook Binge contains a poem "Clegs and Midges" which uses gadflies, real and metaphoric, "cleg" being a British term for the horse-fly.
Red deer, elk (moose), roe deer, fallow deer, and Siberian musk deer are this fly's native hosts. In the United States, it has acquired hosts such as Canadian deer, white-tailed deer, and reindeer. [17] [18] There are stray records of bites on humans, dogs [21] and badger, and it will occasionally commit to the wrong host. [20]
Haematobosca alcis, the moose fly, is a species of blood-feeding muscid in the family Muscidae. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is found in North America. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The moose fly, Haematobosca alcis (Snow) is abundant in Yellowstone National Park .
The final larval stage is completed with the larvae attached to the mucosa of the horse's stomach. When ready to pupate the larvae detach and are voided in the horse's feces. Another example is Dermatobia hominis, torsalo-fly, which is an important parasite of cattle, and sometimes humans, in tropical regions of South America.
2 Stable-fly vs. Horse-fly. 4 comments. 3 Possible New England Folk Name: Moose Fly. 1 comment. Toggle the table of contents. Talk: Stable fly. Add languages.
Tabaninae is a subfamily in the family Tabanidae commonly known as horse flies. There are more than 3000 described species in Tabaninae. There are more than 3000 described species in Tabaninae. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Cephenemyia ulrichii or the moose botfly, also called the elk botfly, moose nose botfly or moose throat botfly, is a large botfly that resembles a bumblebee.In the wild, they attack chiefly the nostrils and pharyngeal cavity of moose (also known as elk in Europe), but have been found in other deer species.
Adult horse flies can be found in July and August. Males of this species feed on plant juices, while female are bloodsuckers. The females have a high fecundity. They can lay about 500 eggs at an oviposition. The larvae pass through 10–13 instars and the full life-cycle lasts 3–5 years. This horsefly may cause appreciable damages on stock farms.