One thing that's helped with my horse is removing all the manure from his corral twice a day. Also, I noticed that the ground around his feeding area had been stomped down with layers of uneaten hay and droppings and water (even a little bit each day adds up). I hacked this back with a pickaxe and there were maggots in the ground. So, now I am vigilant about removing all organic matter every day to make the ground inhospitable to flies.
One method of killing horse flies is to use a spray that is used for killing wasps. Horse flies are harder to kill than the common house fly because they act more like a bee.
Time flies without wings.
A horse might stand in the shade, get a cool drink of water, or will use another horse's tail as a fan( or fly swatter)
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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.
Yes, there are all sorts of flies everywhere in the world. Horse flies are in Florida. :)
Frogs
If the horse fly is carrying a disease it can.
He accidentally ingested some poison that was sprayed on grass to kill weeds near where he was stabled.
Horse flies exist because they evolved from a common insect ancestor with other flies. They fill a certain niche in the ecosystem.