Horse fly

Other common names: “Bulldog Flies,” “Clegs,” “Yellow Flies of the Dismal Swamp,” “Greenheads,” “Gad Flies,” “Copper Heads.”

This one is probably a female — From BugGuide.org, http://bugguide.net/node/view/117 » “[A]dult females feed on vertebrate blood, usually of warm-blooded animals; males (also females in a few spp. in all 3 subfamilies) visit flowers.”
» ID’ed at BugGuide as “Tabanus equalis”: https://bugguide.net/node/view/1423168/bgimage

1 year ago (“American Lady”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2016-06-30
2 years ago (“Cabbage white (female)”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2015-06-30
3 years ago (“16th time this month!”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2014-06-30
4 years ago (“Vanessa atalanta”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2013-06-30
5 years ago (“Wood furniture”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2012-06-30
6 years ago (“Nature’s own ‘skyward-pointing dish’”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2011-06-30

[ IMG_6778S75x75Atm :: f/6.3 :: 1/400" :: ISO-200 :: 55mm ]

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[Maggiemae]

I do know that the horsefly bite is rather painful! Hard to imagine where this guy's teeth are!

[Thom Mitchell]

@maggiemae http://bugguide.net/node/view/117 » “The bite is effected by stabbing with the mouth parts and slicing the skin with scissor-like movements of the finely serrate, knife-like mandibles and smaller maxillae…”