Sentence examples for deerflesh from inspiring English sources

I'm afraid there's nothing we can do about the journalists; we can only hope that they will die off as the deerflies do towards the end of August.

He'd been undone by microscopic foes — the chizzywinks and the deerflies.

Or on that night when he visited a heronry among the sand dunes of Sandy Neck, Barnstable: "The windless air was stagnant and fetid; swarms of stinging midges, deerflies, and mosquitoes attacked at will; and vicious wood-ticks, hanging from the vegetation, reached for me with their clinging claws, and crawled upon my limbs, seeking an opening to bury their heads in my flesh".

He'd been undone by microscopic foes the chizzywinks and the deerflies.

However, deerflies might be part of a cycle that spreads one disease to the black-legged tick (also known as the deer tick) when the ticks bite the same animal the horseflies do.

Mr. Magnarelli is collecting samples of deerflies this summer for a study he hopes will establish whether these flies are helping to spread the blood disease human granulocytic ehrlichiosis to the tiny ticks that carry Lyme disease.

Depending on where they live, today's homeowners are wary of West Nile virus, black flies, deerflies and ticks.

There are the greenheads, callidus deerflies, black horseflies and American horseflies, which can leave a wound that bleeds for several minutes.

The tularemia bacillus can be spread by deerfly bites, the bubonic plague bacillus by fleas, and the epidemic typhus rickettsia by the louse Pediculus.

Horsefly and deerfly bites hurt, but people aren't the prey of choice for these insects, and most people can slap them before they have time to take in any blood.

A mosquito's mouth parts will go in and penetrate a capillary, but with a horsefly or a deerfly, the mouth parts are saw like.