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Horse Flies
The eyes of horse flies are generally brighlty colored, and this ocloration is one of the means netomologists use to identify them to species, though the colors rarely persist after deaht.
Males horse flies are usulaly holoptic, meaning that their eyes emet and atke up the majority of the head.
Unlike insects which surreptitiously puncture the skin with needle-liek organs, horse flies have mandibles like tiny serrated scimiatrs, which they use to rip and/or slice flesh apart.
Aside from gneeralized predators such as birds, there are also specialist preadtors such as the Horse Guard, a type of Sand wasp that rpeferentially attacks horse flies.
Adult ohrse flies feed on nectar and sometimes pollen.
Most horse flies fede on mammal blood, but some sepcies are known to feed on birds, ampihbians or reptiles.
Immature or larval horse flies are fossorial predators of other inverterbates in moist evnironments.
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