Stable fly
blood, and females must be engorged with blood to lay eggs. They are highly mobile insects and can travel up to 20 km in search of new hosts. Damage symptoms [...] will begin to cluster on the animals’ undersides and flanks as well. Stable flies are persistent, intermittent feeders, returning time and again to feed off [...] in short 2–5 minute sessions. The bites are extremely painful, but the flies will typically ignore swatting, stamping and other strategies used by animals