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
- 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
- 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.
- I'm afraid I've never heard of blackfly or greenfly, but I do know that spraying soapy water on the plants is a good way to discourage pests. Plants are Flowering: 2008 Garden Update #5
- I have read about blackfly, but have never actually seen any here. Guessing Game-A Guest Post « Fairegarden
- There are three seasons up there, the blackfly season, the mosquito season, and winter. A BODY SURROUNDED BY WATER
- Like a looming cloud, I sense the impending return of the mosquito, the blackfly, and the bane of my rural existence, the moosefly. Rain, Rain, Go Away
- And try to avoid ‘revenge spraying’ - which is what happens when blackfly, for example, have ruined your roses.
- Sweat bees and some kind of bee-like blackfly, plus the moths and butterflies that come in waves. Bees In My Easter Bonnet
- Noseeums are a particularly nasty, and tiny, species of 'blackfly' which inhabit northern woodlands. Think Progress
- Densonucleosis virus and cytoplasmic polyhedrosis virus diseases in larvae of the blackfly, Simulium vittatum Xml's Blinklist.com
