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blackfly, black fly n. (Zool.)

In the United States, a small, venomous, two-winged fly of the genus Simulium of several species, exceedingly abundant and troublesome in the northern forests; called also buffalo gnat. The larvae are aquatic. It sucks the blood of birds as well as humans and other mammals.

A black plant louse, as the bean aphis (Aphis fabae), which infests e. g. beans and sugar beets; called also bean aphid.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Blackfly" Quotes from Famous Books

... The big black fly was in a sorry plight; She hung and dangled in a spider's web. It was too late to make a hurried flight. The sand is sifting and the ...

— Clear Crystals • Clara M. Beede

... I will be the one who has a small black fly on the right cheek. But beware! Look very carefully; it is easy to make a ...

— Stories to Read or Tell from Fairy Tales and Folklore • Laure Claire Foucher

... little sneaky black fly That gobbles up our ham, The beggar's not a slack fly, He really is a crack fly, And ...

— The Red Horizon • Patrick MacGill

... morning he left Fort Canibas with big Ben Kyle, to make a tour of the Thornton camps. It was a trip that took in the cruising of a township for standing timber on short rations and in the height of the blackfly season, an experience not conducive to reflections on ...

— The Ramrodders - A Novel • Holman Day

... could set some of them to scrubbing orange-trunks with soap-and-water and spraying acre after acre, as we do, in a wild race to keep up with the pests, knowing all the time that some careless grove owner next door may let the rust mite or the black fly get the better of his grove and let it drift over into ours. Then there's always the chance that a grove may get so infected that the government will order it destroyed, —wiped out .... I've been talking just about the citrus fruits, the grapefruit ...

— Black Caesar's Clan • Albert Payson Terhune