Posted on 06/23/2008 8:09:46 AM PDT by Phlap
Mainers call the black fly the state bird.
Residents and tourists have long steeled themselves against the flies' annual warm-weather onslaught, sometimes duct-taping pant legs and wearing screened hoods to keep the deceptively small bugs from delivering bloody bites or crawling into seemingly every body crevice.
But there are now more black flies in more places in Maine, and the reason may be surprising: It's the success of the environmental movement.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
“While it may not look fashionable, tuck pant legs into socks or boots and wear tight-fitting, long-sleeved shirts because the flies often crawl into snug regions of the body to feed”....
And call yourself a liberal and live with it....
They prefer to be called African-American flies...
“They’re going to try to make you afraid. They’re going to try to make you afraid of me.......and did I mention he’s black?”
But I sure wish Noah had swatted those two mosquitoes and black flies when he had the chance
Wow. I take 100mg/day of vitamin B1 (thiamin) and mosquitos don’t come near me. Might be worth a try for these guys.
We’ve got to make the environment clean for the black flies...
Save the black flies!
The little buggers have always been around these parts, but they have been worse than usual this year. Black Fly Season only lasts about a month, but it seems much longer when you’re out trying to cut the lawn and they’re swarming around you like iron filings drawn to a magnet. The worst part (aside from the nasty blistering bites they give you) is that they have a habit of flying right into your open eyes, nose and mouth. There’s a reason I swear more in June than any other month of the year.....
“flies of color”
We have those black flies here in NY too. I have found mega doses of the vitamin B complex really works to keep them from biting. They do not like the smell or taste of the B vitamins when they come out in your sweat. The first year I lived here they had a feeding frenzy on me, welts and scabs all over. The next season I started taken the B complex a few months earlier...I got bit only once.
That’s racist!
I think you meant: Flies of Color.
GMTA. Beat me by 29 seconds.
My mom was talking to her childhood friend up there last week and he said the same thing, he’s almost carried away by them every time he goes outside. He’s lived up there all his life but says there much worse this year. Are they cyclical, like many insects?
This sort of illustrates the countless benefits to all the cutting edge technology being developed to save the planet from ourselves.
Cutting edge, Space Age technologies like Wind Power.
The New Maine State Bird
Thanks to the environmental wacko lobby.
Points to both of you for identifying the more politically correct term.
Premier-in-waiting Obama applauds your efforts.
So...does I wins me a PBR?
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