Bire-bire fly

Distribution of bire-bire fly. Red: primary areas where there are bire-bire flies live. Pink: other areas where bire-bire flies have possessed threats to livestocks and animal-farming.

The bire-bire fly is a kind of fly native to the area of Kawa mountains in the Confederation of Ebo Nganagam, they can also be found elsewhere in the Confederation of Ebo Nganagam and other places of North Baredina.

Bire-bire flies mainly feed on blood of animals, they can also feed on saps of plants, but they don't drain human blood, because they simply can't feed on human blood.

Bire-bire flies are highly adaptive, they can adapt a variety of environments. DDT is one of the few chemical substances that are proven to be effective in killing bire-bire flies, however, he use of DDT is banned by the government of Ebo Nganagam.

Bire-bire flies are generally harmless to human beings, but they spread the bire-bire fever, a kind of livestock disease that infects and kills many kinds of mammals including bovids, caprids, pigs, horses, camels, llamas and even cats and dogs, human beings are one of the few species of mammals that don't get the bire-bire fever.

Bire-bire flies are one of the numerous and common animals in the area of Kawa mountains, Ebo Nganagam people sometimes collect bire-bire flies, making them into fly patties and then cook and eat them, and bire-bire flies are a main source of proteins for local people, some vendors also sell bire-bire fly patties.

The existence of bire-bire flies is probably one of the main reasons to explain why the use of animals is so rare among Ebo Nganagam people.