warble fly

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warble fly

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From warble (“a lesion under the skin of cattle, caused by the larva of a bot fly of genus Hypoderma”)

noun warble flies · warblefly

Any member of the genus Hypoderma of large flies, parasitic on cattle and deer.
Similar: heel fly, bomb fly, gadfly, cattle grub, wolf

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@misc{warble_fly_2026,
  title = {warble fly},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/warble%20fly},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}