NOUN
- small blackish stout-bodied biting fly having aquatic larvae; sucks the blood of birds as well as humans and other mammals
- blackish aphid that infests e.g. beans and sugar beets
How To Use blackfly In A Sentence
- Densonucleosis virus and cytoplasmic polyhedrosis virus diseases in larvae of the blackfly, Simulium vittatum Xml's Blinklist.com
- But the sunny weather has suited greenfly and blackfly, while mildew has affected several plants.
- Hover flies and lace wings control aphids and blackfly.
- If any blackfly remain you can jet them off with a water spray. Guessing Game-A Guest Post « Fairegarden
- Most common are greenfly on roses and blackfly on nasturtiums and broad beans, but dozens of their relations also attack other plants.
- Agricultural activities occur but the area has been less modified by this due mainly to the presence of the blackfly Simulium sp. which causes river blindness and has tended to discourage settlement and encroachment. Comoé National Park, Côte d'Ivoire
- She evokes the futile battle against insects: The pages of my notebook tell their own story, encrusted with flattened mosquito and blackfly corpses and splotches of my own blood. Two books on the Arctic
- There are three seasons up there, the blackfly season, the mosquito season, and winter. A BODY SURROUNDED BY WATER
- One or two other insidious pests have crept almost unnoticed into my garden this month including blackfly, which have infested the tall flowering stems of the cardoons.
- Also, our garden seems to be the home for all the blackfly and greenfly in England, so the plants often get overwhelmed. Plants are Flowering: 2008 Garden Update #5
