ibots

Updated: May 20, 2025

They swept on under trees, hung with orchids, where dragon-flies flashed in and out of the sunlight. This was the country of the hippos, and the banks were scored by their massive feet; it was also, as they found to their cost, the haunt of ibots, a fly with a poisonous bite.

W. P. (William Pringle) Livingstone - Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary