Stable fly
Lower livestock feeding due to stress and avoidance behaviours (animals spend more time trying to escape flies than they spend eating). Open feeding wounds [...] head-upward position. Like the house fly, females tend to be larger and have more widely spaced eyes than males. Females require a blood meal just prior to [...] 5–12 mm long, and they pass through three larval instars within 10–30 (or more) days, depending on the environmental conditions. Larvae can even overwinter