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Synonyms:
- butterflies, bees, lice, bedbugs, katydids, centipedes, locusts, dragonflies, aphids, mosquitoes, grasshoppers, daddy longlegs, black widows, June bugs, fruit flies, spiders, crickets, cicadas, boll weevils, tarantulas, silverfishes, gnats, bookworms, tiger moths, stinkbugs, mantises, earwigs, praying mantises, ladybugs, midges, fleas, chinches, millipedes, mites, scorpions, yellow jackets, blowflies, roaches, flies, dung beetles, moths, chiggers, tsetse flies, deer flies, scarabs, cockroaches, bluebottles, houseflies, nits, termites, fireflies, ticks, ants, wasps, horseflies, may flies
Examples:
- - Then all at once a swarm of buzzing gadflies came out of the bush and fastened fiercely on the palfrey which bore the fair Gerda. - "Legends of the Rhine", Wilhelm Ruland
- - The vehement girl, to whom no one had ever shown any pity, and on whose soul the word had fallen like a mockery, who for long hours had been suffering suppressed and torturing misery, felt it a relief to give free vent to the anguish of her soul; she ended with a hard laugh, and waved her hand round her head as though to disperse a swarm of gadflies. - "The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers", Georg Ebers
- - I likewise roused my horse and went off at a hard trot, with the vain impulse so to shake off the tormenting thoughts that crowded on me like gadflies. - "Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood", George MacDonald
