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Blackfly

🔄 Synonyms of "Blackfly"

4 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
black flynoun	Alternative spelling of blackfly. [A black or dark green aphid (Aphis fabae) that is a common pest of agricultural crops.]
buffalo gnatnoun	small blackish stout-bodied biting fly having aquatic larvae; sucks the blood of birds as well as humans and other mammals
bean aphidnoun	blackish aphid that infests e.g. beans and sugar beets
aphis fabaenoun	blackish aphid that infests e.g. beans and sugar beets

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Blackfly"

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Word	Definition
black flynoun	Alternative spelling of blackfly. [A black or dark green aphid (Aphis fabae) that is a common pest of agricultural crops.]
aphis fabaenoun	blackish aphid that infests e.g. beans and sugar beets
bean aphidnoun	blackish aphid that infests e.g. beans and sugar beets
buffalo gnatnoun	small blackish stout-bodied biting fly having aquatic larvae; sucks the blood of birds as well as humans and other mammals
black bean aphidnoun	A small black insect of species Aphis fabae, with a broad, soft body, a member of the order Hemiptera that is a major pest of sugar beet, bean and celery crops.
greenflynoun	Certain aphids (Aphidoidea), commonly known as greenfly in Britain and the Commonwealth.
hop flynoun	A kind of aphid that is destructive to hop plantations.
black cankernoun	Any of several plant diseases causing the formation of dark cankers.
face flynoun	A fly, Musca autumnalis, that resembles the housefly and is a pest of cattle and horses.
deer flynoun	A gold- or green-eyed horsefly of the genus Chrysops in the family Tabanidae; pests to cattle, horses and humans, feeding on their blood.
blind-flynoun	(uncountable) The game of blind man's buff
forest flynoun	A horsefly, any of numerous species of blood-sucking flies of the family Tabanidae.
greenbugnoun	The wheat aphid (Schizaphis graminum).
fruitflynoun	(deprecated in zoologic systematic nomenclature) Alternative spelling of fruit fly. [Any insect of the Tephritidae family, whose larvae damage plant tissue.]
leaf-miner flynoun	A fly in the family Agromyzidae, most larvae of which are leaf miners on various plants.
fruit flynoun	Any insect of the Drosophilidae family, whose larvae feed on ripening fruit, especially the species Drosophila melanogaster that is used in genetic research.
aphidnoun	A sap-sucking insect pest of the superfamily Aphidoidea; an aphidian.
black beetlenoun	A black scarab beetle, later specifically the African black beetle (Heteronychus arator), a serious pest of grasses in New Zealand.
whiteflynoun	Any of various small insects of the family Aleyrodidae that have long wings, and a white body; often a garden pest
bee flynoun	Any of the flies in the family Bombyliidae, with adults that look like bumblebees and larvae that are parasitic on the eggs or larvae of other insects.