TxCoUnTrYbOy
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Tonight I saw a wierd fly land on my new heifer. I have never seen a fly like this in the last 4 years that I have been around livestock. It was a very large fly that landed right in the middle of my heifers back. I didnt know what it was, so I had another person come look at it. She didnt know either. It was a dark brown, large wings, kind of flat, had a very large thorax (back end?) with dark brown and lighter brown stripes. Id guess it was a darn near 2 inches long. It started biting her, and from what I could see, it looked like it was sucking blood from her. I slapped it off of her and she was bleeding pretty good from where she was bitten. Later on it landed on the other heifers back leg. I slapped it off of her and it landed at the top of my heifers tail. I slapped that off and it came after me. It flew off and we didnt see it again. It seemed that it always landed where the heifer couldnt reach it. When it was biting my heifer, it was obviously hurting her because of the way she was thrashing and trying to get it off.
Does anyone know anything about these things or a good source to try to find out what it was. I want to make sure it wasnt some rare bug that I may have to get some sort of medicine on the bite.
Does anyone know anything about these things or a good source to try to find out what it was. I want to make sure it wasnt some rare bug that I may have to get some sort of medicine on the bite.