black fly

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a small, winged biting insect especially common in the northern woods, Simulium spp.

Quotations

1821

After passing a restless Night from the Attacks of Musquitoes and black Fly we embarked. . . .

1963

. . . the north breeds good fellowship nearly as well as it breeds black flies. . . .