“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.....
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.
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.
I dunno about them getting any "worse" over the years. Having lived in Maine both "pre- and post-cleanup", I don't think I ever saw a dime's bit of difference. Except that over the years, I think that maybe they hang around longer. Old timers say they'd usually be gone by early summer, now it's not uncommon to see them in July/August.
Mainers build up a tolerance to them; folks from away are generally miserable.
The last time I went fishing up at Moosehead (late 90s), guy I was with wore a light-colored shirt and I couldn't tell what color it was, they were so bad.
Comical. The law of unintended consequences.
We live in the heart of blackfly country here in our part of Vermont. You just have to get used to it. After a few years, they don’t seem as bad as they did.
In fact, like true Vermonters, we even celebrate them. This here is from the next town over:
http://www.blackflyfestival.org/
There is another fly here in South Jersey that I am really allergic too. It has yellowish color wings. When one of those b@st@rds bite me I swell up like a balloon.
Gradually my visits to the West Branch region have move later in the year to avoid the slaps, curses and scolding from my fishing partner and wife of way more than forty years. The maxim “IF MOMMA AIN’T HAPPY, AIN’T NOBODY HAPPY” is the reason. Look Mainer do-gooders the longet I have to wait befor I get to come down east, the more of my filthy lucre you pass up.
OBTW, down here in the GSMNP and nearby environs we use to be plagued by a nearly microscopic G-gnat called a “no-seeum”. For some reason they are now extinct in our area. Must have been the acid rain caused by the “gummit power plants” (TVA) down past Knoxville. Every cloud has a silver lining if you look hard enough.
See ya in mid-July at the North Woods Trading Post.
Caddis
...so the environmentalist attempt to preserve the environment is actually altering it. Got it....
Perfect example of how sick these enviro-whackos are...