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Definition of Sheep botfly

1. Noun. Larvae are parasitic on sheep.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheep Botfly

Literary usage of Sheep botfly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Practical Zoology by Robert William Hegner (1915)
"The sheep botfly resembles the horse botfly in general appearance but differs from ... The eggs of the sheep botfly hatch within the body of the fly and the ..."

2. Library of Natural History by Richard Lydekker (1901)
"Schneider, for instance, states that two larvae much resembling those of Hypoderma were obtained from under the LIFE HISTORY OF sheep botfly. a. ..."

3. Source Book for the Economic Geography of North America by Charles Carlyle Colby (1921)
"Another important feature is immunity to the sheep botfly. These insects are the cause of great mortality among sheep on the lower pastures and seem ..."

4. The American Entomologist by Benjamin Dann Walsh, Charles Valentine Riley, George Vasey (1868)
"In the same way we conceive that the normal habit of the Sheep- botfly is to lay eggs, and that it is only when she can not find any sheep at all to prey on ..."

5. Types and Breeds of Farm Animals by Charles Sumner Plumb (1920)
"... found the breed well suited to that section, the sheep flocking well, being good grazers, and apparently quite resistant to heat and the sheep botfly. ..."

6. Farmer's Cyclopedia of Live Stock by Earley Vernon Wilcox, Clarence Beaman Smith (1908)
"... sheep botfly (Oestrus ovis) lays its eggs in the nostrils of the sheep in early summer and the eggs, upon hatching, develop into grubs which penetrate ..."

7. Leaves from Nature's Story-book by Meriba Ada Babcock Kelly (1893)
"The sheep botfly is of this sort. The mother fly places her white larvae in the nostrils of the sheep. Is not that a strange nest for her little helpless ..."

8. Injurious Insects: How to Recognize and Control Them by Walter Collins O'Kane (1912)
"—Larva of the sheep botfly. Slightly enlarged. Original. The Ox Warble (Hypoderma lineata Villers) ..."

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