Big Fly ID

[guido]

Hello,

Never seen one this big,

Guido.

 

[old]

Looks like one of the many horse flies I see when I am out in the horse barn

 

[Zeke Boniface]

Look up "big black fly" on Google. We see them occasionally on cattle in central New York. Never seen one bother a human here.

Zeke B.

 

[Mike(NEOhio)]

I see some horseflies that big here but that abdominal appendage is really odd.

 

[Farmaller]

The Quarter is more odd than the fly, it's old. You should keep it (quarter)

 

[Mule Meat]

Appears to me to be the black one from the Bot Fly family.
Bot flys that causes Warbles.

(quoted from post at 16:43:29 08/21/19) I see some horseflies that big here but that abdominal appendage is really odd.

Ready to or just finished laying eggs.

 

[LonM]

Looks kind of like tabanus atratus... black horse fly.

Lon

 

[4play]

I think it's guts from butt blow out by getting smacked with a swatter. I also would call that a horse fly, the females will bite but usually leave humans alone and go after other animals. horses and cows are nice big defenseless targets

 

[Mike(NEOhio)]

farmaller's right. Didn't notice it, 1968 silver quarter. Keeper.

 

[coshoo]

Last silver coins were in 1964.

 

[Stephen Newell]

I have them on my place. Sometimes you get 6 or 8 of them after you at the same time. Let one bite you and you end up bleeding. It feels like someone stabbed you with an ice pick.

 

[Goose]

I see some once in a while.

We always called them horse flies.

 

[JMOR]

(quoted from post at 09:48:30 08/22/19) I have them on my place. Sometimes you get 6 or 8 of them after you at the same time. Let one bite you and you end up bleeding. It feels like someone stabbed you with an ice pick.

ery true. you will see the fang holes in your skin.

 

[Ronnie Budd]

Horsefly. They are common here in SW Missouri, and will land on your back or shoulder when you're out working. You know it when they drill for blood.

 

[Jim Phelps]

They have it right horse fly, in my neck of the woods they are abundant and as one guy said the females will bit.

 

[4520BW]

We used to catch them live in the shop windows and shove a broom straw up their a$$ and let the go. Funny sight to see