GAACK! Black flies are out Wicked!

[Jstpssng]

Likewise, ticks haven't been bad this year either

Deer ticks aren't bad up here. However, I was 60 miles south of here last month and got one in a very personal spot, which I had to use a mirror to see. I am 2/3 of the way through a round of antibiotics which is causing problems of it's own... but still better than Lymes.

 

[dodge man]

By black flys are they what a lot of people call gnats? If so they are coming out and getting bad. They are the kind the vanilla bug spray helps.

 

[Thomas]

Just what until blackflies crazy cousin mosq. arrive.

 

[Jstpssng]

Just what until blackflies crazy cousin mosq. arrive.

I can usually deal with mosquitos, as well as what we call deer flies. Blackflies will drive me inside.

 

[Mtsoxfan]

Black flies are not gnats. BF leaves a welt like a horsefly/deerfly but it's itch lasts for weeks. And you feel them biting.

 

[Jstpssng]

Black flies are not gnats. BF leaves a welt like a horsefly/deerfly but it's itch lasts for weeks. And you feel them biting.

Thank you. I wasn't sure what a gnat is.

 

[CalG]

Don't get us started on "no- see-ems", ;-)

 

[Jstpssng]

Don't get us started on "no- see-ems", ;-)

Also eye gnats. They don't bite, but seem to like to fly around and into your eyes.

Hence the name, of course.

 

[mike69440]

Vitamin B, don't eat bananas , DEET if it's bad enough.

Black flies are just starting in NH. I take vitamin B and eat bananas for the potassium to fight leg cramps.

 

[tacticalturnip]

Ugh, they seem real bad this year...