Horsefly Facts #shorts

You’ve probably seen plenty of flies, but have you ever seen a fly bigger than a bee, like the "horsefly"? Typically, when people catch a horsefly, they pull off its wings because, to ranchers, horseflies are nothing but pests. Horseflies survive by feeding on the blood of various mammals, with farm animals like sheep, cattle, and horses being their main targets. However, the truly terrifying thing about horseflies isn’t just that they suck blood. What’s even scarier is that they lay eggs on their hosts.
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[eatwhatukiii]

DRAGONFLIES ARE YOUR FRIENDS, because they HUNT these as well as deerflies, mosquitos, and other biting insects. They need a pond with vegetation to breed in. I only have horseflies in the spring before the dragonflies emerge. The rest of the summer the dragonflies snatch them right out of the air before they can bite. They lay their eggs in marshy areas with rotting vegetation. BOTFLIES are the ones that lay eggs ON your horse.

[leonides]

"you've lost your wing privileges"

[kirby-impostor]

Let's take a moment to thank dragonflies and hornets for being horsefly predators.

[darkloverose]

These guys are the reason so many horses do not care if you smack them randomly.

My clients horse had a horse fly land on him and stayed completely still. Didn’t even flinch when i smacked it. I looked at her and went “he definitely expected me to come kill me for him”

Another horse i worked with kept doing baby bucks and scaring it away then would get mad at me for not killing it.

[lucyhellbroke]

I’ve dealt with various types of bees, wasps, hornets, even fucking tarantula hawks… Landing on my horses as I’m riding. The one bug that will make me quickly decide (depending on the horse) to dismount?

These assholes. Horseflies. Want to see the most calm, gentle, and otherwise totally mellow under any circumstances of horses, suddenly and violently lose their shit completely for a few seconds? Horseflies. I hate them. And having been bit by them on more than a few occasions, I totally understand where my horses are coming from.

Stupid flying bitey bastards. And they are virtually everywhere.

[chasem]

I would rather grab a bee than a horsefly this guy has balls

[inconspicuouscupofblood]

I prefer a wasp sting to a horse fly bite

[Nevario]

Horseflies are not botflies. Horseflies are a specific type of fly that feeds on blood for egg development in which they lay in semi-aquatic to aquatic environments.

Horse Bot Flies are different and will use the horse as a nesting ground.

Both are pests but they are not the same.

[emmanuel.o.i]

Bro really seized their flying license 😂

[net_spider]

They also hurt like heck when they bite you. Ain't no mosquito bite, those things have little pinchy jaws.

[WhatHitYou]

These damn things would always attack us when we were getting out of a swimming pool.

[ElAlmon]

Those hurt...they don't sting they bite and it takes a divet out of the skin when they bite people. They leave horses dripping blood. Their mouth does like the predator monster then they suck the blood! They get huge, about the size of a quarter sometimes.

[kostismetallo]

Horseflies is the worst bite I've ever experienced. Evey single one of them caused a permanent scar

[Justcallme-sharky]

In these places you gotta love the dragonflies and the house centipedes

[REDNECKPARADISE]

Tularemia, Anthrax, Loiasis, Equine infectious anemia, Anaplasmosis is the list of diseases attributed to horsefly bites, they also leave open wounds for parasites to enter on the surface area of a horse to top that off they also can be the cause of a serious allergic reaction causing inflammation, dizziness, redness, swelling and even wheezing, horse flies are truly disgusting creatures.

[karolclark]

Person: *pulls off wings*
Me: "that's kinda cruel"
Narrator: "lay eggs in their hosts"
Me: "nvm, carry on"

[kkdc]

Nah whats truly terrifying is when I tried to swat a “horsefly” and a million maggots started pouring out. Turned out to be a pregnant fly.

[PhazonBlaxor]

"Have you seen a fly this big before?" Ummm... Every summer for all of my 34 years?

[Greenwitch_Garden]

The worst is when you’re walking or hiking and they chase you for miles, chewing on you, zipping around you like “I got you!!” You can outrun them, though.

[katerinachelmis]

The balls on them to just grab a horse fly. I’ve been bitten by one and oh my god does it hurt; they straight up bite a chunk out of you