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greenhead
noun
A biting horsefly.
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The dancers, wearing Roxana Ramseur's handsome gray-toned costumes and soft taupe shoes, march onto the stage with militaristic rigor and line up behind it while gazing out — their expressions conjuring the frozen faces of Ms. Ali's greenhead figures.
Watch out for nasty greenhead flies later in the summer.
One of the worst flies, and the most common, is the greenhead horsefly, whose colored eyes and aggressive ways torment people along the coast from New Jersey to Cape Cod.
The air is thick with greenhead flies.
The temperature reached 96 at the Seaview Marriott Bay course and the greenhead flies that infest the area this time of year were more bothersome than usual for players and spectators in today's second round of the ShopRite L.P.G.A. Classic.
Paul Capotosto, a wetlands biologist, said it was the greenhead that tormented him and his crew as they did work the last several weeks in coastal marshes for his employer, the State Department of Environmental Protection.
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The work marks Mr. Moss's second artistic venture with Ms. Ali, who is best known for her "Greenheads" series of two-dimensional figures and is credited with dance dramaturgy.
In July, greenheads rule for about four weeks before giving way to dragonflies.
They are the kind of people who don't mind greenheads and mosquitoes".
The Cumberland County marshes also boast "greenheads, strawberry flies, deer flies, nosee'ums, chiggers, ticks," he says with perverse pride.
There are the greenheads, callidus deerflies, black horseflies and American horseflies, which can leave a wound that bleeds for several minutes.
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