Hi Dear Steemians,,,, These are some images Pitok (Acehnese), or Horsefly, I took this picture yesterday in the town forests in Aceh. I can not take pictures Horsefly more detail, because he never fixed, always on the move and away from my camera.
Horsefly is harmful flies, bites are very painful, and often ambushed, usually when the body in wet conditions.
Description.
Horsefly is flies and suckers and large-sized blood sycophants (including humans). These animals, especially women, who love to gather around the body of cattle waiting for perch and suck blood. all kinds of Horsefly included in the tribe Tabanidae.
Species of Tabanidae tribes who frequently attack humans and livestock usually considered pests, because the bite of the female fly and spread of diseases and parasites through these flies. Various species of Tabanidae ranged in size from medium to large. Some types, such as deer fly and Australian March fly makes the sound very noisy when flying, despite cleg, for example, fly quietly and bite without warning. Flies can fly fast and agile. Once observed to maneuver like a fighter jet pilot, for example Immelman turn.
Although considered pests, Tabanidae also important as a number of auxiliary pollination of flowers. In particular, some species in South Africa as a very long proboscides adapted to extract nectar from flowers that have a long corolla tube and narrow like Lapeirousia and a number of Pelargonium. Tabanidae exist around the world, not only found in a number of remote islands in the ocean or places in north latitude and south extremes.
Sources : Wikipedia
All the pictures taken with my smartphone camera, Xiaomi redmi note 4, with the addition of a macro lens.
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