The Astor variety, on the contrary, live almost entirely in the open, only taking to the strips of forest when driven there by the gadflies in the summer.
Even in England the gadfliesare more than troublesome to human beings.
Of the numerous insect parasites and tormentors of solipeds the gadflies (Œstridæ) demand chief attention.
The true horseflies are often erroneously called gadflies, and the true gadflies are sometimes incorrectly called breeze flies.
The gadfliesof the horse produce the intestinal parasites called bots.
These eggs are hatched in the midst of the gastric juice, the larvae leave them, and the young gadflies find in the juices of the stomach the milk which serves to nourish them.
Instead of making their attacks on those of their own class, the gadflies prefer to instal themselves on mammals and sometimes even on man.
About the middle of the sixteenth century the inhabitants of several villages in Aargau were greatly annoyed by swarms of gadflies and petitioned the Bishop of Constance for relief.
We had often seen them perched on the backs of cows, seeking for gadflies and other insects.
They were as many as the gadflies and frogs in the desert, or the waves of the sea.
His tired horse was standing quite still, simply moving his long tail from side to side to drive away the gnats and gadflies that were riddling his bleeding flanks with wounds, for, after the mistral, the gadflies dance!
Another instant, and gadflies and mosquitoes settled down again upon the bleeding surface and dotted it with a myriad of black spots; but Blanchet, albeit somewhat cross, was used to that annoyance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gadflies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
