As with most biting flies, it is only the female march flies that bite as they need blood to produce the next generation. They use their strong, piercing mouthparts like a needle to extract blood from their mammal hosts. The males have larger metallic green eyes and feed on nectar.

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Acrocerids are strange looking small-headed flies with humped thorax. Some adults feed on flower nectar, however others, such as Ogcodes spp., have reduced mouths and are not known to feed. All acrocerid larvae are internal parasites of spiders. Female small-headed flies often lay hundreds of eggs or more in one area, usually prefering to do so on dead plant twigs though sometimes man-made substrates such as clothes lines are chosen instead. Immediately after hatching, the larvae are very mobile and seek out a suitable host – this will be an unlucky spider passing by. They typically enter the body by 'breaching' the abdominal tegument. Though the spider remains alive for some time while the larva, or larvae, feeds internally it is eventually killed, usually during the spider's penultimate stage just before final maturity. The larvae will then pupate.

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Horse-flies or horseflies are true flies in the family Tabanidae in the insect order Diptera. They are often large and agile in flight, and the females bite animals, including humans, to obtain blood.

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The Acroceridae are a small family of odd-looking flies. They have a hump-backed appearance with a strikingly small head, generally with a long proboscis for accessing nectar. They are rare and not widely known. The most frequently applied common names are small-headed flies or hunch-back flies

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March Flies are from small to large in size. They have large eyes with reflective iridescent colour. Their wings always have the 'Y' shaped veins at the tip. Usually there are the dense short hairs on their body. Their mouth is the strong straight proboscis for piercing and sucking. All male March Flies feed on nectar. Some species of female feed on blood, they target on horse, cattle and humans. March Fly larvae of most species live in fresh water, damp soil or rotting plants. The larvae are carnivorous, preying on insects and snails. March Flies are sometimes known as Green Heads.

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