Morphology

MORPHOLOGY - HORSE BOT FLIES
  • Adult flies are brown in colour, hairy, somewhat resembling bees
  • 18mm long

Head

Thorax

  • Wing shows the presence of a dark, irregular transverse band running across it

Abdomen

  • Ends in a characteristic crooked prominent ovipositor

Gasterophilus adult fly
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