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Definition of March fly in English: March flynounPlural March flies Australian, NZ A bloodsucking fly of the family Tabanidae, which feeds on mammals, especially horses. when the March flies start biting, the crocodiles are laying their eggs Example sentencesExamples - The bite of at least one march fly species - Mesomyia tryphera - can cause serious allergic reactions in some people.
- The family of march flies are closely related to the blood-sucking mosquitoes and sand flies.
- A plague of March flies, which lasted about a week, worried us very much.
- The tiny black bugs are 50 to 100 times smaller than a March fly.
- March flies were of great interest to another scientist safe from their stings in his mainland laboratory.
- Doctors treated her for third-degree burns and welts from swarms of stinging black March flies.
- The most important equipment was the tropical strength insect repellent to ward off the swarms of march flies.
- Graham tells of pulled pigtails and dead march flies in ink wells.
- Living things communicate by their actions, as with the stinging bite of the march fly.
- Maybe we can launch a class action against mosquitoes, march flies and anything else that might bite us.
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