North Atlantic Skyline - - Photographs from the west of Ireland (Galway, Mayo, Clare, Limerick, Roscommon and even Leitrim)

Blood Suckers

The only good horsefly is a dead one - I hate them. Exquisitely sneaky, they creep up on you, find a nice juicy piece of exposed flesh, and administer a painful bite. It's only the females that do the bloodsucking, though male horseflies probably get blamed equally. Nothing like the human species, then.

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