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Stomoxys calcitrans
The size of a house fly, and very similar except for the beak-like mouthparts, which are used to pierce the skin of livestock and withdraw blood.
Found on a cattail leaf at the edge of an artificial wetland. Surrounding native landscape is dry shortgrass prairie.
This is more or less the North American equivalent of the tsetse fly.
Spotted on May 27, 2013
Submitted on May 30, 2013
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