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What is the correct Greek term for the biting horse fly, which is common for only about a month. I encountered many of them darting over the villa's swimming pool or trying to get a drink from the water. Δαβανος - I can't find how it is accentuated - is one term but that can also apply to the clegg fly, which is much smaller.
Here are pictures of the two concerned:-
The smaller one first can be found at http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-cl...s-biting-the-photographers-hand-63819882.html.
The larger & much more fearsome one is to be found at https://skopelosnews.wordpress.com/2012/06/15/horse-fly-δαβανος/.
The confusion I am in is that both seem to be described by the same term. I'm sure I heard σκούρος in Skopelos but in Heather Parson's guide to the little island she uses δαβανος. Frustratingly, I cannot find the term σκούρος anywhere in my several volumes of notebooks.
It would be useful also to have a list of Greek flies/biting flies with the names Greeks use for them and of course I am aware that different terms are probably used in different islands.:down:
Here are pictures of the two concerned:-
The smaller one first can be found at http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-cl...s-biting-the-photographers-hand-63819882.html.
The larger & much more fearsome one is to be found at https://skopelosnews.wordpress.com/2012/06/15/horse-fly-δαβανος/.
The confusion I am in is that both seem to be described by the same term. I'm sure I heard σκούρος in Skopelos but in Heather Parson's guide to the little island she uses δαβανος. Frustratingly, I cannot find the term σκούρος anywhere in my several volumes of notebooks.
It would be useful also to have a list of Greek flies/biting flies with the names Greeks use for them and of course I am aware that different terms are probably used in different islands.:down:
