[dbwz]

If those black flies are like the pine flies in South Jersey, I feel sorry for 'em.

It sure sounds like the same fly. Nasty little buggers.

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.

Hmm. I don't think I've ever seen one like that here. I know we have the green-heads that swarm when the breeze comes off the bay during the summer months, and those things are just evil. But are you sure the bug that's biting you isn't some sort of small bee?

[mware]

Not sure what they are called but they come out towards twilight.

When they lit on you that almost immediately take a nip out of ya.

They sting like the dickens.

[mware]

Just found a photo of one. They are deer flies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deer_fly