black fly

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black fly

Any of various small, dark-colored biting flies of the family Simuliidae, the larvae of which attach to rocks in running streams. Also called buffalo gnat.

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black fly - small blackish stout-bodied biting fly having aquatic larvae; sucks the blood of birds as well as humans and other mammals

buffalo gnat, blackfly

gnat - any of various small biting flies: midges; biting midges; black flies; sand flies

genus Simulium, Simulium - type genus of the Simuliidae: blackflies

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Symon, the official guardian and guide, was a young man, prematurely gray, with a grave mouth which contrasted curiously with a very small, dark mustache with waxed points, that seemed somehow, separate from it, as if a black fly had settled on his face.

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