Subject: Large fly like bug
Geographic location of the bug: Ontario, Canada
Date: 08/08/2018
Time: 10:08 PM EDT
Your letter to the bugman: Hello! What’s this bug? It was on the wall outside my store …It’s horrifying and I must know if it is a horsefly or cicada or another insect I haven’t thought of..
How you want your letter signed: Sparkledemon
Dear Sparkledemon,
This is definitely a Horse Fly and it looks to us like Tabanus marginalus pictured on BugGuide, and it is very curious that though BugGuide states: “The most common biting horse fly throughout the world” there are only three images posted there and all are from a limited area in the Northeastern portion of North America, including Ontario.