Talk:Stable fly

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[edit] Our Work is Cut Out For Us

This sounds like a fascinating area of research. I took an invetebrate zoology (pronounced zoe ollijee) course in the 70s. In one of our lab classes we caught insects in nets to etherise and examine under bioscopes.

I spent 20 yrs as an RN in teaching medical centres. For a year I officed with a PA, who was the epidemiologist for ER research. So you epidemiologists, large animal veterinarians and entymologists can help.

Two questions arise: 1. They bites horses, so is Stomoxys calcitrans a vector for deseases such as mosquitos in Eastern equine encephalitis? 2. I remember being bitten by them in horse barns, so does this mean they are potential vectors of other arboviruses such as West Nile virus, which has, by my estimation, about 10-50 unreported human cases in my county? The Christmas crow counts were down a few years ago which the birders are saying is attributable to WNV, and I had a dead common grackle outside my door 4-5 yrs ago. We are starting to see more crows the last 2 yrs or so.

After visiting the project page, I see nobody is working on arthropoda so whoever knows how can put my name down to help--W8IMP 12:03, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Stable fly vs Horse-fly

This article claims these are referred to as horse flies, which contradicts Horse-fly. Can someone provide a clarification? Is Horse-fly the "true" horse fly and is a stable fly a "fake" horse fly?Dav2008 22:20, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Dav2008; I eagerly await an answer to your question. The more common English names are posted, the more rich the article becomes. That is why Carolus Linnaeus applied binomial nomenclature, invented some 200 years previously by the Bauhin brothers and must remain an integral part of every natural history discussion. In my amateur zooligist's opinion the test has to be, if female/male male/female specimines can produce offspring, they are the same genus and species--but, what about horse, donkey, mule, hinny, horse/donkey/zebra bison/bull combinations? The test then has to be, whether or not their offspring are capable of reproducing. It is my belief that if their offspring cannot produce viable offspring, they are not the same species.--W8IMP 06:44, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] stable flies

stable flies suck and i hate them they are so boring and all they do is go buzz buzz buzz. and another thing i am going to complane about is the infomation on this subject there is none and that is the problem! Well g2g and if you dont know what that maens than you are stupid! lol just kidding! it maens got to go so g2g!!!! lol lol lol ! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.9.215.73 (talk) 01:36, 15 May 2008 (UTC)