bulldog fly

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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any one of several species of horsefly, especially Chrysops.

Quotations

1848

. . . the whole room was filled with mosquitoes and bulldog flies.

1963

Her face was swollen from continuous bites of mosquitoes, bulldog, black and no-seeum flies. . . .