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You’ve got your common house flies…and gnats…and no-see-ums…and fruit flies…..

*****(Information on Horse & Deer Flies)*****

…..but the Big Mama’s of the fly-community are the gargantuan horse flies…..

They mean business…they are Humvees with wings…and an oil rig drilling proboscis…..

It usually takes more than a few slaps and a well-placed stomp to take them out…..

…..(along with some ever-ready chickens to peck them into oblivion)…..

Normal flies are annoying…some bite…but mostly they buzz around my nose and eyes or ears…..

…..I’ve probably swallowed a few…but I don’t want to think about that…..

*****(How Many Bugs Do You Probably Swallow In A Lifetime?)*****

But horses invariably seem to attract horse flies…..

Horses hate them…they run from them…they roll in the dirt to squish them…..

If you’re nearby…you might be able to calm your horse enough to take a swipe at the massive biting insect…..

…..but usually…the horses are too busy stomping and flailing trying to dislodge the fly…that they won’t hold still long enough for you to take aim and kill it…..

I think deer flies actually sting more…and there are usually more of them…..

But the horses seem to be more complacent with passels of deer flies on their back rather than one horse fly…..

We have so many deer in our pastures and in the surrounding woods…so the deer flies are abundant…..

I feel bad when I come up to one of my horses and I see a rivulet of blood trickling down their body from where a horse fly has eaten its fill…..

…..and usually even the marketed fly sprays don’t deter a hungry horse fly…..

I really hate them…in the past…they were hard to see on our black Percherons…but they’re easy to locate on Brave’s white spots…..

I have a personal vendetta against all horse flies…..

 

 

 

 

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