What's the difference between cleg and tabanid?

Cleg


Definition:

  • (n.) A small breeze or horsefly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Clegg's most recent act of clegging was to explain to this newspaper that the Institute of Fiscal Studies was wrong to brand the spending review "unfair".
  • (2) Years from now, teachers will ask their pupils to stop "clegging on" about how the dog ate their homework and just bloody hand it in on time.
  • (3) "I think you have to call a spade a spade," he clegged, immediately before demonstrating his commitment to straightforward language by querying the definition of the word "fair".
  • (4) The previous administration's simplistic "culture of how you measure fairness", was partly to blame for the Institute's foolishness, clegged Clegg in a cleggish tone of voice.

Tabanid


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This, and the fact that BLV-infected lymphocytes were recovered from tabanids allowed to feed on a BLV-positive cow, supports the idea that bloodsucking insects play a major role in the spread of BLV.
  • (2) One-way deformation tests using sera prepared against known beetle and tabanid spiroplasmas showed each of the above strains to be unique.
  • (3) The ability of tabanid mouthparts to retain and to transfer mechanically Ehrlichia risticii Holland, Weiss, Burgdorfer, Cole & Kakoma was evaluated by feeding flies on infected and noninfected mice and on capillary tubes containing infected cells and cell-free medium.
  • (4) All these data combined would appear to indicate that tabanids play a considerable role in the spread of BLV under natural conditions.
  • (5) Therefore, more tabanids attach themselves to old animals than to young ones.
  • (6) The recapture data after the first day of marking was significantly delayed for tabanids that fed on fenvalerate-sprayed bullocks.
  • (7) The low A. marginale reactor rate in this white-tailed deer population was probably a reflection of the lack of cohabitation between cattle and deer and the fact that the primary arthropod vectors in Louisiana are tabanids.
  • (8) Where samples were large enough, the preferred alighting sites were determined for the tabanids, and differences in such sites were found for species in three genera.
  • (9) No isolates were obtained from greater than 4,000 tabanids collected along with the mosquitoes those years.
  • (10) Tabanids were collected during 2 consecutive summers from 3 counties in New York using a canopy trap and insect net.
  • (11) Traps baited with octenol + phenols, with or without acetone, caught the greatest numbers of tabanids.
  • (12) Lower tabanid burden of foals was indicated as a practical protective mechanism against pathogenic agents mechanically transmitted by tabanids, such as equine infectious anemia virus.
  • (13) Based on the presence of nulliparous host-seeking flies, Tabanus pallidescens Philip and T. wilsoni Pechuman can be added to the list of tabanids found to be anautogenous.
  • (14) These studies document that E. risticii-infected cells can be retained on mouthparts and potentially transferred by tabanids.
  • (15) In only one of the 4 cases, a tick-bite can be asserted, the role in the the transmission of this kind of arthropods being strictly excluded in 2 of the 3 other cases (transmission likely by a mosquito and by a biting fly (tabanid?)).
  • (16) Tabanids were collected in an area in northern Germany, where pastured cattle were abundant.
  • (17) The paper concerns the possibility of decreasing the number of tabanid flies on pastures by means of ball- and funnel-shaped traps (of the Manitoba type) with insecticides and expediency of using the above method for the cattle protection that prevents the milk productivity loss by 6.7 to 8.3%.
  • (18) Parity, stage of follicular development, sperm and fructose presence were determined for 6 tabanid species from southwestern Quebec during 2 consecutive years.
  • (19) This is clearly seen in host-location strategies by tsetse and tabanids.
  • (20) Meteorological effects on activity were studied during 2 weeks of peak tabanid abundance.

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