Sentences with word «blackfly»

Sure, you can laugh at the fact that you received thirty blackfly bites on your neck now, but that story may cause some anxiety for the camper who is soon to face such horrors.

Filled with rice and beans and manioc, the men are out of camp by 7:30 the next morning; clouds of blackflies follow them.

This was followed by The Delicate Storm (2002), Blackfly Season (2005) and By The Time You Read This (2006).

A team led by UBC Botany Prof. Patrick Keeling sequenced the genome of Helicosporidium — an intracellular parasite that can kill juvenile blackflies, caterpillars, beetles and mosquitoes — and found it evolved from algae like another notorious pathogen: malaria.

The disease is caused by the parasite Onchocerca volvulus, which is spread by blackflies, and often leads to irreversible blindness.

For protection, we recommend wearing clothing that fully covers your body when spending time in areas populated with blackflies and mosquitoes; using bug repellents that include DEET; buying bug repellents that are specific for your animals; and limiting the time spent outdoors during peak times (dawn and dusk).

O. volvulus is spread by two species of blackfly, Simulium damnosum and S. sirbanum.

This was followed by The Delicate Story (2002); Blackfly Season (2005); and The Fields of Grief (2006), published in the USA as By the Time You Read This.

When the last day of camp inevitably rolls around, I love bringing out my guitar to sing one last round of «The Cat Came Back» and «Blackfly» (if you've been in the theatre on a Summer Club morning you'll know what songs I'm talking about).

And changes in algal communities led to a rise in midges and blackflies — favored foods of trout — resulting in a near tripling of non-native rainbow trout numbers.

The terrain is wet and dense and dark and infested with ticks, spiders, stinging ants, malarial mosquitoes, wasps, Africanized bees, stingless bees (that can nonetheless pinch heartily), chiggers, blackflies, whiteflies (which carry leishmaniasis), and the dreaded botfly.

Deer Lake, Newfoundland — One of the more noticeable things in this part of The Rock, after the blackflies and the moose collision warning signs, is how many Chevy Silverados are out here.

A warm weather disease that primarily affects dogs confined to the outdoors in the summer and fall, fly strike is most often caused by the common stable fly, however, blackflies, deer flies, and houseflies can also bite.

Mosquitoes & Blackflies.

Additional information about fleas, ticks, mosquitoes and blackflies can be found through the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources website.

Their bites itch much the same way that a blackfly bite may, however with a skin allergy the site may develop red bumps that are increasingly itchy as opposed to a regular bite.

Transmitted through the bite of a blackfly near flowing streams and rivers, the illness has become better known as «river blindness.»

Take precautions against malaria, yellow fever, meningitis and insect bites (namely tsetse, tumbu and blackflies, ticks and sandfleas).

Nearby are the Gypsy Cab Company, Mojos Tacos, the Conch House, Mellow Mushroom, and the Blackfly.

In Winnipeg's case, that's probably a fair trade - off for floods, blackflies, and locusts (ok, «skitters»).