Those buggers can hurt like the dickens. Worse than pine flies, and I swell up for a couple days wherever the point of contact is.
They’re terrible that’s for sure. They are attracted by movement...I used to have to go to the mailbox in my truck to avoid them. I noticed that they attacked the truck when it was moving...when it stopped moving, they disipated....they’d come screaming back when I turned on the windshield wiper blades. LOL.
Deer fly, huh? I've definitely never noticed one like that here on NJ's northern barrier island, but if there are any here, they'll find me. Mware, I'm sorry the bites affect you like that. Sounds like what happens to me with mosquito bites every once in a while. And summer's just begun... ;-)