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calvinater
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Worst year ever for black flies this spring.
Where are all the bats?
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crukab
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| Posted: Thu May 26, 2022 4:48 pm Post subject: Re: Black flies |
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The Bat population took a hard-hit w/ that "White Nose Syndrome" the last 2 years. I'm lucky to live away from woods & wet swampy/marsh areas, very little bugs w/ all the open fields around us, plenty of mice though... 
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madmike
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| Posted: Fri May 27, 2022 3:06 am Post subject: Re: Black flies |
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Noseem's too and the Ticks are the worst I've seen this year also 
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oprn
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| Posted: Fri May 27, 2022 4:13 am Post subject: Re: Black flies |
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We are so dry that I have only seen 2 mosquitoes so far this year. I have seen years where the mosquitoes were so thick I thought the mower was on fire. They would rise up out of the grass just like smoke! You could not go outside without covering your mouth and nose or you would be breathing them in. I was talking to a farmer friend that year and he told me his big field tractor kept overheating. He would have to shut it off every 15 to 20 minutes and clean the mosquitoes off the radiator.
Bats unfortunately are very rare here, I have only seen 2 in the last 20 years. I worry about the Swallows nesting in our yard. No idea what they will find to feed the little ones.
On the other hand it does make for pleasant open car touring and motorbiking. No bug bites in 4 hours of lawn mowing either so there's that! Killed 2 queen wasps yesterday. They generally get bad in hot dry weather, so do the grasshoppers.
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iowegian 
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| Posted: Fri May 27, 2022 5:43 am Post subject: Re: Black flies |
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We are so dry that I have only seen 2 mosquitoes so far this year. I have seen years where the mosquitoes were so thick I thought the mower was on fire. They would rise up out of the grass just like smoke! You could not go outside without covering your mouth and nose or you would be breathing them in. I was talking to a farmer friend that year and he told me his big field tractor kept overheating. He would have to shut it off every 15 to 20 minutes and clean the mosquitoes off the radiator.
Bats unfortunately are very rare here, I have only seen 2 in the last 20 years. I worry about the Swallows nesting in our yard. No idea what they will find to feed the little ones.
On the other hand it does make for pleasant open car touring and motorbiking. No bug bites in 4 hours of lawn mowing either so there's that! Killed 2 queen wasps yesterday. They generally get bad in hot dry weather, so do the grasshoppers. |
How do you expect to have a lot of mosquitos when you still have snow on the ground? |
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ZENVWDRIVER
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| Posted: Fri May 27, 2022 11:41 am Post subject: Re: Black flies |
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We used to live-in upstate NY = black fly country - on weekends, i had time to weed the gardens, beginning at daybreak or 5 AM - would finish around 8, when the dew evaporated off and the black flies came out - then moved to Oklahoma where there are no black flies, instead there are chiggers - z
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Emily's Owner
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| Posted: Fri May 27, 2022 11:40 pm Post subject: Re: Black flies |
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Looks like my part of Oregon is looking better and better.
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Abscate
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| Posted: Sat May 28, 2022 1:45 am Post subject: Re: Black flies |
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| Looks like my part of Oregon is looking better and better. |
Until the Xevins come out.
If you keep to the lower part of upstate NY you don’t get black flies, and there are gone by Fathers day.
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madmike
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| Posted: Sat May 28, 2022 2:46 am Post subject: Re: Black flies |
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Black flies Pretty much gone here,,,
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oprn
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| Posted: Sat May 28, 2022 3:28 am Post subject: Re: Black flies |
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| How do you expect to have a lot of mosquitos when you still have snow on the ground? |
Ha! Right eh?
It's actually been 2 weeks since the last snowfall here and that one was brief with no lasting effects. 
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Jon Schmid
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| Posted: Sat May 28, 2022 10:24 am Post subject: Re: Black flies |
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We don't have black flies in SoCal. We have enough other shit that would probably make us wish for the flies...  |
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finster
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| Posted: Sat May 28, 2022 11:36 am Post subject: Re: Black flies |
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you do realise that those black flies are the latest micro surveillance drones...don't ya? 
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oprn
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| Posted: Mon May 30, 2022 7:18 pm Post subject: Re: Black flies |
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Yup someone spent tens of millions of dollars to put thousands and thousands of them out there to spy on the general public doing practically nothing on the weekends...
Makes perfect sense doesn't it? 
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Red68
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| Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2022 8:29 am Post subject: Re: Black flies |
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| Jon Schmid wrote: |
| We don't have black flies in SoCal. We have enough other shit that would probably make us wish for the flies... |
Amen to that. That's why I moved. (to central California) It's a little better here.
No black flies here. Just a lot of flies. I live next to horse ranches. Lot's of horses equals a lot of flies.
Rattlesnakes are what I worry about. They aren't friendly.
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Red68
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| Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2022 8:42 am Post subject: Re: Black flies |
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Yup someone spent tens of millions of dollars to put thousands and thousands of them out there to spy on the general public doing practically nothing on the weekends...
Makes perfect sense doesn't it? |
My wife was laying out by the pool in a bikini and a drone was buzzing around above her. If I was there I would have got my shotgun.
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nsracing
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| Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2022 6:14 pm Post subject: Re: Black flies |
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| The shotgun is for the drone, right? |
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VW_Jimbo
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| Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2022 6:53 pm Post subject: Re: Black flies |
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| Jon Schmid wrote: |
| We don't have black flies in SoCal. We have enough other shit that would probably make us wish for the flies... |
Amen to that. That's why I moved. (to central California) It's a little better here.
No black flies here. Just a lot of flies. I live next to horse ranches. Lot's of horses equals a lot of flies.
Rattlesnakes are what I worry about. They aren't friendly. |
We get tiny black flies, but only when water is present. Being we are in a drought and it is super dry, AND we are not allowed to water anything. The black flies are no where to be found!
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Da TOW'D
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| Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2022 8:26 pm Post subject: Re: Black flies |
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lots of no-see-ums and horseflies in my end of the woods
the warm weather brings them out
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