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Elissian

  • Joined Oct 2009
    • Wiltshire
blood sucking insect
« on: July 12, 2010, 09:07:12 pm »
there was a large flying insect sucking my pigs blood today. 1 1/4 inches with a black and buff striped body, quite alarming! Does anyone know what they are and do they carry disease.
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DJ_Chook

  • Joined Jun 2009
    • Mid Wales
  • Chicken mad, nothing else just chickens.
Re: blood sucking insect
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2010, 11:27:46 pm »
Urocerus gigas?  Pictures a plenty on google images.
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Chicken nutter extraordinaire.

nessjw

  • Joined Jun 2010
Re: blood sucking insect
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2010, 08:20:52 pm »
Quote from: Elissian on July 12, 2010, 09:07:12 pm
there was a large flying insect sucking my pigs blood today. 1 1/4 inches with a black and buff striped body, quite alarming! Does anyone know what they are and do they carry disease.

Was it a horse fly? horrible bleeding things...I got bit the other day, itched like mad!
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