A stinging fly flew down and lit on her nose.

They didn't want stinging flies raising welts on their pretty skins.

They hurt them, of course, and infuriate them: like stinging flies.

There were ugly stinging flies, clouds of droning gnats and mosquitoes.

Nothing worse than a few stinging flies by the river.

What happened was a plague of stinging flies on a restaurant terrace at lunchtime.

Does one hate a slimy but harmless toad or a stinging fly?

The small stinging flies and mosquitoes followed and hung over him like a fog of discomfort.

It was bad enough going into the mud wallows, enduring the stink, but there were also clouds of stinging flies.

One of the stinging flies had thrust its sharp-tipped proboscis into his flesh to suck blood.