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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Calyptratae » Hippoboscoidea » Louse Flies (Hippoboscidae) » Lipopteninae
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Very small insect found on my neck
Copyright © 2009 marvin Turner

Very small insect found on my neck
Montauk, Suffolk County, New York, USA
October 7, 2009
Size: aprox 3mm
Difficult to dislodge-- hooked feet
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Contributed by marvin Turner on 12 October, 2009 - 9:51am
Last updated 29 June, 2011 - 10:50am

Can you contact us by email?
Our address is on our contributor page. You'll have to adjust it to a real email address. Thanks.
… john and jane balaban, 21 October, 2011 - 1:28pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Louse Flies.
… Keith Bayless, 29 June, 2011 - 10:50am login or register to post comments

You keep pigeons?
If you keep birds, hunt them, or hunt deer, these flies can come off of those animals when the host dies. They are definitely not parasitic on humans, just to clarify:-)
… Eric R. Eaton, 13 October, 2009 - 12:30pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 12 October, 2009 - 10:44am login or register to post comments

Look in
Hippoboscidae (Louse Flies)
http://bugguide.net/node/view/13382/bgimage
… John R. Maxwell, 12 October, 2009 - 10:12am login or register to post comments

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