Zebra stripes.
It works this way: Horseflies see horizontally-polarized light. Vertical stripes mess up the flies' vision. The most efficient stripe width for screwing up the ability of the flies to see happens to be the width of the stripes on zebras.
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Zebra stripe tattoos will be the rage in fly country.
blood sucking animals and horizontal stripes, makes me think congress critters in horizontal prison garb.
Blood sucking bugs, both.
Eck!
So if I dress my horse in striped pajamas...
.... how it got into your pajamas, I'll never know.
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