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Wadenstechern

English translation: stable fly

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German term or phrase:Wadenstechern
English translation:stable fly
Entered by: Jeannie Graham

12:17 Nov 17, 2005
German to English translations [PRO]
Science - Science (general)
German term or phrase: Wadenstechern
Der allgegenwärtige Rindermist begünstigt auch die rasante Vermehrung von Wadenstechern (beißende Fliegen – Stomoxys calcitrans) und Rinderbremsen (Tabanus sudeticus).
Jeannie Graham
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:38
stable fly
Explanation:
http://icb.usp.br/~marcelcp/stomoxys.htm
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Lancashireman
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:38
Grading comment
thank you
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4 +3stable fly
Lancashireman
4 +1ankle-biters
Lori Dendy-Molz
5stable flies, horse flies
John Speese


  

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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
stable fly


Explanation:
http://icb.usp.br/~marcelcp/stomoxys.htm

Lancashireman
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:38
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 23
Grading comment
thank you

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Cilian O'Tuama: http://owen.nhm.ac.uk/piclib/www/image.php?img=55094&frm=ser...
1 min
agree  Gabrielle Lyons
2 hrs
agree  Dr. Georg Schweigart
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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
ankle-biters


Explanation:
this is usually applied to children where I come from, though.

Buggspray for Biting Flies has no fragrance but contains two EPA-registered fly
... This new formula really works to keep those ankle-biters from biting", ...
www.buggspray.com/news.html

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Note added at 4 mins (2005-11-17 12:21:57 GMT)
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another ref:
Stable flies, sometimes called biting house flies or ankle-biters, are about
1/4 - 3/8th and are gray with four longitudinal black stripes on their thorax. ...
www.extension.umn.edu/yardandgarden/YGLNews/YGLN-Aug0105.ht...

Lori Dendy-Molz
Germany
Local time: 08:38
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Cilian O'Tuama: trivial name, like the German (painful b*ggers they are too)
3 mins
  -> the child variety can be too, at times ;-)
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59 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
stable flies, horse flies


Explanation:
I would use stable fly rather than ankle biter, which, although very descriptive and admittedly a more accurate translation of the German, is a more colloquial term in English. Stable fly is the accepted English language common name for Stomoxys calcitrans, which, unfortunately, is cosmopolitan. And the accepted English language common name for flies of the family tabanidae is horse flies and deer flies; here is a Scottish website where the species you mentioned is referred to as the giant dark horsefly.
As a tip, if you have the Latin names of organisms, you can often get their accepted common names in the target language by googling them. I was an entomologist before becoming a translator, and the Entomological Society of America publishes a list of accepted (English language) common names, which are used in entomology textbooks, scientific articles and practical texts like this one, and I think they are more appropriate for the register of this kind of a text.


    Reference: http://www.nature-diary.co.uk/2004-07-21.htm
    Reference: http://icb.usp.br/~marcelcp/stomoxys.htm
John Speese
United States
Local time: 02:38
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
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