- Blood-sucking insect - Bloodsucker makes mare soar like Pegasus - Bloodsucking fly - Gadfly - Any dipterous fly of the family Tabanidae, that stings
horses, and sucks their blood. - The horse tick or forest fly (Hippobosca).
- Bloodsucking insect - Insect type - Parasitic insect - Small bloodsucking insect with a round, wingless body - Small thing that nips in the night - A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex
Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See
Illustration in Appendix.