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Any of various species of fly which feed on deer, principally in genus Chrysops.
2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 161:
When the sun comes out, it is totally delightful, except for the mosquitoes, and the blackflies, and the deerflies.
2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of all Maladies, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 149:
The basement was flooded and the couch was growing mildew, so we sat outdoors in the shadows of the trees in a screened tent with deerflies and mosquitoes buzzing outside.
2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 36:
It was not a horsefly and it was not a deerfly; it was bigger than either.
