Bot-flies Sentence Examples

Animals suffer from the ravages of bot flies (Oestridae) and gad flies (Tabanidae); while the tsetse disease is due to the tsetse fly (Glossina morsitans), carrying the protozoa that cause the disease from one horse to another.

Female adult bot flies resemble bees and are often a considerable annoyance to the horse when laying eggs.

Comprises the hover-flies, flesh-flies, bot-flies, &c.