A stingfly was a type of insect. According to Thrawn, thousands of stingflies being encouraged to attack a tusklan from all sides would kill the creature. The use of stingflies as a hunting method took time and ruined the pelt of the tusklan, but the hunter remained safe as the tusklan didn't know where the attack came from.
In the current Star Wars canon, Stingflies were first mentioned in the novel Thrawn, which was authored by Timothy Zahn and published in 2017. They first appeared as Tactica pieces in Zahn's 2021 novel Thrawn Ascendancy: Lesser Evil. In the Star Wars Legends continuity, the was first mentioned in Zahn's 1997 novel Specter of the Past.
In the current Star Wars canon, Stingflies were first mentioned in the novel Thrawn, which was authored by Timothy Zahn and published in 2017. They first appeared as Tactica pieces in Zahn's 2021 novel Thrawn Ascendancy: Lesser Evil. In the Star Wars Legends continuity, the was first mentioned in Zahn's 1997 novel Specter of the Past.