At Seldom's suggestion, this is a thread to report on what blood-sucking flying vampires are biting your a$$ at your local. This week in the jerz has been worse than I've seen in at least five years for the biting black flies, especially when the wind is offshore. I have at least 20 bites on my legs and on the arm that I was carrying my boart with the other morning. At one point my boart was covered in them when I was crossing the dune. At least the green heads (and most of the tourons) are gone.
Ahh good call cjtst11! Aight, so here's the types of flies I know.. -We got the green heads, call them horse flies up here, not sure if that's regional. -Got those black ones that look like regular flies but bite. I clearly remember a pumping November day, 11/3/12 to be exact, where they focked my feet up good on the beach. -Then we get these flies in the woods, size of a regular fly, but brown, and are as persistent as the greenies. And they fockin' hurt when they get ya. -Also, I encounter these in the woods and the neighbourhood, these tiny little flies that hover around you and land, and never bite. I got one in me eye once though.
Ugh, the worst was when I would take my pre-surf sh!t in the dunes under the 2nd street stairs (which are now buried by replenishment). I had green heads biting me arse and the little black f@ckers biting my face.
I was walking on the boardwalk with my wife and kid last weekend. I felt something big land on my shoulder. I jumped like a homo and hit it... It was just bird sh!t and now it was on my shoulder and hand. Thanks Obama #9/12
All logic and reason went out the window when a log is poking out and flies are ravaging the nether regions.
I think the green heads are technically deer flies but horse or deer, they take a serious chunk out of you and it hurts. Thankfully they are big and slow and easy kill. The little ones that look like gnats (maybe they are?) get in my eyes and on my head (ball cap helps) and don't hurt when they bite but the bites itch like crazy the next day. No idea what they are but see to be at their worst in spring/early summer.
Only time we've had biting flies since I've been here was 2 years ago when the seaweed invasion happened. Those f***ers were everywhere, even up on the seawall sidewalk. They'd be up your nose, in your mouth, you name it. Now we just have lots of skeeters, dusk and dawn. LOTS. If you're doing a DP, they'll swoop on ya while you put on your leash. They never follow me out into the water though. Those flies really sucked.