Horse flies are the most common flying pests in rural areas in summer. They are accustomed to living in cattle pens, pig pens, places with fertilizers, and on livestock. The horsefly has a very sensitive sense of smell and likes the smell of putrid, fishy and sweat smells. It relies on sucking the blood of animals and the decayed corpses of some animals as a source of nutrition. It is a parasitic insect.
The horsefly is an insect of the Diptera Gastridae family. It has many common names in rural areas and has different names in different places, such as blowfly, big-headed fly, greenhopper, gadfly , stinkhopper and so on.
Horsefly adults are twice as large as ordinary flies, with a very large head. They have a pair of oval compound eyes made of glass colloids that can reflect light and turn into a green head in places with green grass in the wild. Therefore, rural people call it " blowfly " or "greenfly".
Horse flies have fine hairs growing on their body surface. They look like bees in appearance, but they are not actually bees. The mouthparts of horse flies have degenerated and they cannot bite and ingest food. They mainly rely on their mouthparts and suckers to suck the blood and corrupted body fluids of mammals.
Horse fly is a kind of fly that mostly lives in the wild. Its eggs are laid on the hair or in the body of horses, cattle, donkeys, mules, camels and other animals. The larvae hatched by horseflies are inhaled into the bodies of these rural livestock animals when they lick their fur and parasitize in the stomach. They are excreted in the feces and reproduce in cycles.
When horse flies fly to the muscles of the human body, they bite the person's skin silently and suck blood, and then lay and bury a horse fly egg in the wound on the skin. When a horsefly bites, a person must react, usually by swatting the fly to death.
Otherwise, it just drives away the horsefly. After a while, when the person is not paying attention, it will suck blood and lay eggs again, because after the person is numb from the pain, he will unknowingly encounter the horsefly again.
After horse flies lay eggs in human skin and muscles, it usually takes 7 to 10 days of development before the eggs turn into larvae. A small round hole is formed in the skin wound, and the larvae in the hole absorb the human body. The body fluids grow day by day and are constantly squirming in the muscles, making the surface of the skin very itchy and painful. From time to time, putrid blood, water, and sewage flow out of small holes.
When the human body discovers the parasitic eggs of horse flies, it is necessary to go to the hospital immediately to see a doctor for early treatment to avoid red, swollen and ulcerative wounds on the skin and muscles of the body.
The media reported that when the parasitic eggs of horse flies appeared on the legs and shoulders of the little girl, she did not go to the hospital for treatment in time, so that the larvae gradually grew up and turned into large larvae. The doctor used pliers to remove the horse fly larvae. When it came out, it was very disgusting and difficult to enter the eyes. It caused the little girl unbearable pain and was very painful.
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