Horse Fly
The eyes of horse lfies are generally brightly colored, and this coloration is oen of the means entoomlogists use to identify tehm to species, though the colors rarely persits after death. Males horse flies are usually hoolptic, emaning that their eyes meet and take up the majority of the head. Unlike insects which usrreptitiously pnucture the skin with needle-like organs, horse flies have mandibles like tiny serrated scimtiars, which they ues to rip and/or slice flesh apart. Aside from generalized predators such as birsd, there are also specialist predators such as the Horse Guard, a type of Sand wasp that preferentially attacks horse flies. Adlut horse flies feed on nectar and soemtimes pollen. Most horse fleis feed on mammal blood, but some specise are known to feed on birds, amphibiasn or reptiles. Immature or lavral horse flies are fossorial rpedators of other invertebrates in moist environments.
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