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I wish they did. No, they like blood. They're like really big, hungry mosquitos.
Canada has the largest mosquitos in the Universe. The mosquitos in Canada are big enough to pick up a horse and fly away with it.
A horse fly is a true fly (Diptera), with two wings, related to houseflies, fruit flies and more distantly to crane flies and mosquitos. It has complete metamorphosis, with a maggot larva and a pupa. Horse flies suck vertebrate blood. A dragonfly belongs to a very different group (Odonata), is much more primitive and doesn't pupate into its adult form. Their nymphs are aquatic. Dragonflies hunt flying insects.
There are horse flies in Virginia, same as there are horse flies almost everywhere else in the world. There are specifically more horse flies in the east coast, especially in Florida. As for Virginia there's nothing special about the horse fly population there. Just the same old horse flies like everywhere.
Horse flies don't like water because if they went in water it would kill them and horse flies prefer blood.
Pteronarcophobia is the fear of flies, which includes horseflies.
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Yes, there are all sorts of flies everywhere in the world. Horse flies are in Florida. :)
If the horse fly is carrying a disease it can.
Horse flies exist because they evolved from a common insect ancestor with other flies. They fill a certain niche in the ecosystem.
Horse flies fly using wings, just like any other kind of fly.
A horse fly has approximately 6 legs on their body. Horse flies are larger than other species of flies.