eye fly
noun1
Any of various kinds of tiny black flies (especially of the family Chloropidae) which swarm around the eyes of people and animals.
- Electricity had paid no attention, and a colony of eye-flies had come instead and blackened the coils with their bodies.1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 93:
- Synonyms
- eye gnat