warble fly
nounEtymology From warble (“a lesion under the skin of cattle, caused by the larva of a bot fly of genus Hypoderma”)
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Any member of the genus Hypoderma of large flies, parasitic on cattle and deer.
- Synonyms
- heel fly, bomb fly, gadfly, cattle grub, wolf
- Derived terms
- ox warble fly, cattle warble fly (Hypoderma lineatum, reindeer warble fly