Habits

BLACK FLIES - HABITS
  • Adult females suck blood, attack in swarms
  • They are opportunistic feeder, feed either on human or animals, also known to be ornithophilic
  • They are diurnal, exophilic and exophagic
  • Can enter the natural openings of the body
  • Mating is close to the breeding site
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