
Also known as stable fly, barn fly, biting house fly, dog fly
species of insect
Stable Fly
SPECIES
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Stomoxys calcitrans is known by the common names stable fly, barn fly, biting house fly, dog fly, and power mower fly. Unlike most members of the family Muscidae, Stomoxys calcitrans ('sharp mouth' + 'kicking') and others of its genus suck blood from mammals. Now found worldwide, the species is considered to be of Eurasian or African origin.
Physical features
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).