warble fly

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   hairy bee-like fly whose larvae produce lumpy abscesses (warbles) under the skin of cattle

   Broadergadfly

   Part ofHypoderma

Questions about warble fly

What does warble fly mean?

warble fly means "hairy bee-like fly whose larvae produce lumpy abscesses (warbles) under the skin of cattle".

Is warble fly a common word?

warble fly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.