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
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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
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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.Just what until blackflies crazy cousin mosq. arrive.
Mtsoxfan
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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.
Also eye gnats. They don't bite, but seem to like to fly around and into your eyes.
Hence the name, of course.
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Black flies are just starting in NH. I take vitamin B and eat bananas for the potassium to fight leg cramps.
tacticalturnip
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Ugh, they seem real bad this year...