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Family Tabanidae - Horse and Deer Flies

Deer Flies · Pangoniinae · Horse Flies · Unidentified Deer and Horse Fly Eggs · Unidentified larvae and pupae

Subfamily Chrysopsinae - Deer Flies
Id request - Chrysops abatus - female Deer Fly - Chrysops vittatus - female Deer Fly - Chrysops golden deer fly - Chrysops - male Deer fly July 9 - Chrysops - female deer fly - Chrysops pikei Tabanidae - Chrysops mitis Deer or Horse Fly - Chrysops

Subfamily Pangoniinae
Is this a tabanid? - Goniops chrysocoma - female Esenbeckia sp. - Esenbeckia delta - male horse fly or flower fly? - Stonemyia Male horse fly? - Stonemyia rasa - male Tabanid - Apatolestes willistoni - female Goniops chrysocoma - male Male, Tabanus? - Apatolestes parkeri - male Horse Fly - female

Subfamily Tabaninae - Horse Flies
unknown fly - Tabanus - male Horsefly - Hybomitra - female Is this a bot fly? - Tabanus - male Horse fly - Tabanus turbidus - female key chararacters - Haematopota rara - female 05Jun2017.lotus.HN.Dip.3 - Tabanus equalis - female Horse Fly - Hybomitra hinei - female horsefly - Hybomitra

Unidentified Deer and Horse Fly Eggs
Horse fly eggs Egg Cluster Probably an insect egg mass, laid on a cattail leaf overhanging a pond. Eggs on Swamp Milkweed Leaf Assassin Bug Eggs? unknown Tar River floodplain Vance County scale insect on Saururus cernuus 2021 2 Deer or horsefly eggs

Unidentified larvae and pupae
poking out of the dry mud at the edge of a pond Horse Fly Larvae- ID Help, species? Aquatic larva? On a salt marsh road, night Black horse fly & larvae - Tabanus atratus? Salt marsh larva Tabanidae larva? Diptera larva


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