(n.) Any dipterous fly of the family Tabanidae, that stings horses, and sucks their blood.
(n.) The horse tick or forest fly (Hippobosca).
Example Sentences:
(1) Potential horsefly intermediate hosts collected in the enzootic area included Hybomitra rhombica osburni, H. tetrica, H. metabola, Chrysops noctifer pertinax and Atylotus incisuralis.
(2) That information together with our observations suggest that segregation of infected horses (usually defined as at least 200 yards from susceptible horses) as a control measure for EIA may not be an adequate safeguard against transmission in areas where horseflies are numerous.
(3) In 1 of 7 transmission trials, a single horsefly transmitted EIA virus from an acutely infected pony to a susceptible pony.
(4) The knowledge accumulated in the course of studies of bloodsucking dipterans: mosquitoes, horseflies, Heleidae, midges in the Urals and the adjacent territories is reviewed.
(5) (3) There is a time link between the rate of sero-conversion and the variations in activity of the horsefly population.
(6) Groups of horseflies isolated for 3, 10, or 30 minutes before refeeding transmitted EIA virus, whereas those isolated for 4 or 24 hours did not.
(7) After statistical analysis, this space-time study showed that: (1) There is a significant positive geographical correlation between the rate of incidence of BLV infection and the density of the horsefly population.
(8) Spiroplasmas have been isolated previously from a number of blood-sucking arthropods, including ticks, horseflies, and deerflies.
(9) The average number being 120-300 mosquitoes and 50 horseflies per hour, the milking qualities in the cattle decreased by 6.2%, the milk fat content by 11.8%.
(10) Seven mosquito species and 18 horsefly species were observed to be attacking the cattle.
(11) A parallel entomological study was run over the same period, using continuous trapping, in order to determine both the density and variations of horsefly (Tabanus spp.)
(12) However, this protection period was not achieved for horseflies.
(13) Data from field studies indicate that the home range or flight distance of horseflies may exceed 4 miles.
(14) In some ways, however, chirps are a Trojan horsefly, a way to sneak bugs into American diets and transform sceptics into insectivores.
(15) 13,924 mosquitoes, 75 horseflies and 60 blackflies were processed in 1973.
(16) Blood-feeding success of female horseflies, Hybomitra expollicata Pandellé and Tabanus bromius L. (Diptera: Tabanidae), was studied.
(17) Dipterous blood-sucking insects (horseflies, black flies, gnats, midges) have negative impacts on the performance of draught horses in forest enterprises.
(18) Microsporidia of the genus Ameson were recorded from larvae of horseflies of the genus Hybomitra in Karelia.
Zimb
Definition:
(n.) A large, venomous, two-winged fly, native of Abyssinia. It is allied to the tsetse fly, and, like the latter, is destructive to cattle.