Gadfly - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: gadflyBurrel fly
The botfly or gadfly of cattle Hypoderma bovis See Gadfly...
Botfly
A dipterous insect of the family Estridaelig of many different species some of which are particularly troublesome to domestic animals as the horse ox and sheep on which they deposit their eggs A common species is one of the botflies of the horse Gastrophilus equi the larvaelig of which bots are taken into the stomach of the animal where they live several months and pass through their larval states In tropical America one species sometimes lives under the human skin and another in the stomach See Gadfly...
Breeze
A fly of various species of the family Tabanidaelig noted for buzzing about animals and tormenting them by sucking their blood called also horsefly and gadfly They are among the largest of two winged or dipterous insects The name is also given to different species of botflies...
Bull fly
Any large fly troublesome to cattle as the gadflies and breeze flies...
Gadbee
The gadfly...
Gadfly
Any dipterous insect of the genus Oestrus and allied genera of botflies...
OEligstrian
Of or pertaining to the gadflies...
VerbarOEligstrus
A genus of gadflies The species which deposits its larvaelig in the nasal cavities of sheep is oeligstrus ovis...
Oxfly
The gadfly of cattle...
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