YELLOW FLIES!!!!! AKA Deer Flies

[Stimw]

We have had a major hatch of Yellow Flies in my neighborhood!
Apparently Malathion doesn't touch them. The county has sprayed and I have sprayed and it didn't do anything.
I have one of those little things that you wear for mosquitoes and it works if there is not a lot of wind but it does nothing for the flies.
If I go outside for one hour I spend 15 minutes doing something and 45 minutes swatting and dancing! I can't get anything done.

 

[phiferpharm]

They are REALLY bad this year. I know there is a lot of extra water in ponds, my lake, etc, and I think that contributes. I go out early and am wearing long sleeve shirts all the time.

The only thing they seem to like better than me is a cup of hot coffee. I left one on a table under my pole shed a few days ago and there had to be 6 or 7 of the d@mm things swimmin' in it when I went to pick it up.

 

[Baby Grand]

I feel your pain.
You need a blue Solo cup hat slathered with tanglefoot.
Deer Fly Traps

 

[oosik]

I do not like what I'm hearing from youse guys. We get deer and horse flies. One eats on you; the other drinks your blood. It will be a month here, before its warm enough for either. I puff up like a balloon when I get bit.

 

[s219]

They are bad here. Last week, I quit working on my barn early because I couldn't take it anymore -- they were so annoying I couldn't think.

We normally go for a walk with our baby around 7-8am if the weather is good, but the last few days the flies have been getting pretty bad. I hate those suckers.

 

[JamesHW]

I've been working outside in this last week clearing brush Upstate NY and honestly the bugs have not been bad. Probably the cold winter and we are still getting cool nights. I think one deer fly bussed me then flew away. Seen a couple of deer back behind the house.

The squiters' have been around but not too bothersome, at least not to the point we need to retreat to the screened in porch or resort to chemicals. Just swat a few when the land on the skin, maybe two or three an hour. Being a little breezy helps.

 

[the old grind]

I feel your pain.
You need a blue Solo cup hat slathered with tanglefoot.
Deer Fly Traps

^^ !!!!!! ....... :thumbsup:

Also: Trapping Deer Flies in Livingston County, Michigan: the 2012 deer fly season has ended!!!

 

[tcreeley]

Around here, you can't go outside after 5 without being swarmed with black flies in your face. But I can report that they don't have much taste!

 

[Western]

Deepwoods OFF wont work? High amount of DEET

 

[dave1949]

I've found DEET to be marginally effective against deer fly. They still land but maybe don't stay long enough to bite if the DEET has been recently applied--like in the last half-hour. :laughing: