March fly

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Alternative spellings 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 See also

[edit] English

[edit] Alternative spellings

• march fly

[edit] Noun

March fly (plural March flies)

1. A dark hairy fly of the family Bibionidae.
2. (Australian) A bloodsucking tabanid horsefly.

   • 1988: There were other, less pleasant forms of life, too; March flies with a spike-like proboscis I thought would have no trouble going through a pine board. — Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked (Angus & Robertson 1995, p. 237)

[edit] See also

• cleg
• deer fly
• double-headedbug
• forest fly
• gadfly
• honeymoon fly
• kissybug
• lovebug
• telephonebug
• yellow fly
• zimb