Talk:Tabanus nigrovittatus

Common names of true flies

In his fine popular introduction to the insect order Diptera, The natural history of flies (1964), Harold Oldroyd mentions what seems to be a rule of thumb: whereas butterfly, damselfly, and other non-dipteran insect have the word fly within their common names, true flies are ked flies, bat flies, tsetse flies, filth flies, blow flies, horse flies, vinager flies, fruit flies, and so on (with nary a hyphen in sight). Far be it from me to legislate about common names of insects, but this is one case where we might reasonably remove the hyphen in horse-fly. --Wloveral (talk) 00:15, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Have a look at this discussion on same. Not sure how it resolved re Wikipedia Policy. Heds (talk) 03:30, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Attracted to blue

I hear frequently that greenheads are attracted to blue. That is why greenhead fly traps are blue. Someone should check to see if that's fact or urban legend and write about it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.118.43.237 (talk) 00:17, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

@76.118.43.237 I live in northeast Massachusetts and the boxes are painted black. I never heard them being attracted to blue. Thier bite is very painful. Close to a bee sting. Philhal451 (talk) 00:09, 10 July 2022 (UTC)