The researchers then recorded videos of horseflies trying to get at the horses.

研究人员随后录制了马蝇试图接近马的视频。

They put these objects in a field infested with horseflies and counted the number of insects they trapped.

他们把这些实验对象放到一个充满马蝇的场地，然后计算被吸引的马蝇数目。

Bee sting? No, that hurts. More like a horse-fly.

蜂螫 不是 那个痛多了 更像是马蝇叮了一口。

Horseflies are known to prefer horizontal polarised light.

众所周知马蝇偏向于水平偏振光。

Such research has also shown something odd: horseflies attack black horses in preference to white ones.

相对于白马，马蝇更喜欢叮咬黑马。

Astride her web, Charlotte sat moodily eating a horsefly and thinking about the future.

蹲坐在网里的夏洛，正在心事重重地吃着一只马蝇，想着以后的事情。

Their first discovery was that stripes attracted fewer flies than solid, uniform colours.

他们第一个发现是条纹的比纯色的吸引的马蝇少。

Indeed, previous research has shown that fly attacks on horses and cattle reduce their body fat and milk production.

的确有研究表明被马蝇袭击的马牛出现了身体脂奶量下降的现象。

That fact got Dr Horvath wondering how they would react to a striped horse—in other words, a zebra.

这一事实使得Horvath博士十分好奇马蝇会对一个条纹马，也就是斑马作何反应。

Zebra stripes do, therefore, seem to repel horseflies.

因此，斑马的条纹看起来真的能够防马蝇。

Possibly, the mostly vertical stripes on a zebra confuse the fly's tiny brain and thus stop it seeing the animal.

所以极有可能是斑马身上垂直的条纹迷惑了马蝇的小脑袋，因此阻碍了马蝇发现斑马。

Biting flies within Diptera, like mosquitoes, horse flies, and deer flies, have a piercing-sucking mouthpart instead of the sponging mouthpart.

双翅目中会叮咬的昆虫，例如蚊子、马蝇、鹿虻、是有着刺吸式的口器而非舔吸式的。

The horsefly he's a different sort, he dies of himself.

马蝇他是另一种， 他死于他自己。

The researchers recorded videos of horse flies as they tried to bite zebras and horses at a farm in North Somerset, England.

研究人员录制了马蝇的视频，在英格兰北萨默塞特的一家农场上，它们试图叮咬斑马马。

But Dr Horvath thinks it might be related to a horsefly's ability to see polarised light, which imposes a sense of horizontal andvertical on an image.

但是Horvath博士认为这可能与马蝇识别偏振光的能力有关，偏振光是从水平垂直方向打在画面上的。