Horse flies don't shoo.
They're too desperate for blood meals to be deterred by mere waving discouragements. Once a horse fly zeroes in on a warm mammalian target like a large domestic animal, you or me, it's apt to persist in its advances until it gets dinner, gets swatted or the object of the quest flees.
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