[Jo]

Thanks Paul - good find.


FAMILY: Chloropidae (eye gnats)

1. tiny flies that look much like minitature house flies
2. feed off secretions from body, opportunistically on blood if available
3. vomit stomach secretions onto food to begin digestion
4. common species include Hippolates spp.
5. may be involved in mechanical transmission of several bacterial diseases into wounds. These include Treponema pertenue (yaws) and bovine mastitis on teats. Pinkeye in humans has been shown to be transmitted by these flies as well (among other ways)

Animal Parasitology

Interesting that they are a spirichete, like borrelia, and very interesting about the filaments sticking out of lesions.

Jo xxx