DCHP-3

deer fly

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a blood-sucking horsefly of the genus Chrysops.

Quotations

1903
The question of flies--using that, to a woodsman, connotive word in its wide embracement of mosquitoes, sand-flies, deer-flies, black flies, and midges--is one much mooted in the craft.
1962
But in addition, the bogs of the region abound with mosquitoes, deer flies, snapping turtles, lizards and snakes.