Definitions
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- noun entomology A black or dark green
aphid that is a commonpest of agricultural crops. - noun entomology Any of various small black
bloodsucking flies of the family Simuliidae.
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Examples
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Noseeums are a particularly nasty, and tiny, species of 'blackfly' which inhabit northern woodlands.
Think Progress 2009
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Noseeums are a particularly nasty, and tiny, species of 'blackfly' which inhabit northern woodlands.
Think Progress 2009
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Like a looming cloud, I sense the impending return of the mosquito, the blackfly, and the bane of my rural existence, the moosefly.
Rain, Rain, Go Away 2009
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Agricultural activities occur but the area has been less modified by this due mainly to the presence of the blackfly Simulium sp. which causes river blindness and has tended to discourage settlement and encroachment.
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She evokes the futile battle against insects: The pages of my notebook tell their own story, encrusted with flattened mosquito and blackfly corpses and splotches of my own blood.
Two books on the Arctic Post 2011
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Like a looming cloud, I sense the impending return of the mosquito, the blackfly, and the bane of my rural existence, the moosefly.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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She evokes the futile battle against insects: The pages of my notebook tell their own story, encrusted with flattened mosquito and blackfly corpses and splotches of my own blood.
Two books on the Arctic Post 2011
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Sweat bees and some kind of bee-like blackfly, plus the moths and butterflies that come in waves.
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If any blackfly remain you can jet them off with a water spray.
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I have read about blackfly, but have never actually seen any here.
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