warble fly

warble fly

See also: warblefly

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Etymology

From warble (“a lesion under the skin of cattle, caused by the larva of a bot fly of genus Hypoderma”)

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warble fly (plural warble flies)

  1. Any member of the genus Hypoderma of large flies, parasitic on cattle and deer.

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