1.   These microscopic biting flies would dry and shrivel in minutes out in the sun.

2.   Although some scientists suspect it can be spread within herds by biting flies, anthrax is not highly contagious.

3.   The judicial metamorphosis of Lance A. Ito from butterfly to biting fly in the O.J. Simpson case.

4.   The ice thawed in June, and biting flies rose in black clouds from the surrounding muskeg bogs.

5.   These days a visitor is greeted only by butterflies and biting flies, among the fields of buttercups, orchids, bluebells, daisies and heather.

6.   Tiny biting flies defied our insecticide.