Anyone who has been bitten by a horsefly (formally, a tabanid) knows that they're much more irritating than your average midge or mosquito.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

We show that such stripes make the host quite tabanid-repellent. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

"We would like to mention that we are preparing a separate paper on the effect of stripes on host animals like zebra, okapi, etc. to the attraction of tabanid flies.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference