Biting flies

[Cutting]

We have purchased these rescue outdoor fly traps https://www.amazon.com/STERLING-INTE...en%2C63&sr=1-4

They work and will collect tons of flies.

[SailinAway]

I believe the photos above are of horseflies.

https://www.google.com/search?q=hors...h=320&dpr=1.62

[WinnisquamZ]

Originally Posted by Cutting

We have purchased these rescue outdoor fly traps https://www.amazon.com/STERLING-INTE...en%2C63&sr=1-4

They work and will collect tons of flies.

Thank you. I purchased two and they are working. Thanks for the advice


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[Winilyme]

If any of you frequent areas with deer flies during their in-season (mid-summer), purchase these:

https://www.amazon.com/12-Deerfly-Pa.../dp/B0038RO1YI

I use these at our CT home where, in July, the deer flies are merciless no matter what I'm doing outside. They are also great to have along when hiking at that time of year. These make being outside enjoyable again. Almost every single fly will attempt to land on your head where they get stuck to the flypaper. Yes, you'll feel a little odd with patches of dead or dying deer flies on your cap but given the alternative, who cares.

Note...these are specifically for deer flies (see Thinks photo below) as they nearly always go for the head. They will not work with other biting flies.

[Chickie]

Thank you, ApS, for your post regarding the similarities and differences in the various biting flies which are prevalent throughout the Lakes Region and beyond.

As a child I spent a great deal of time at the family farm in Gilford and remember those pesky stable flies very well. My uncles kept a hand-held sprayer in the barn filled with a liquid mixture to spray their cows when those horrible creatures swarmed around tormenting them. It had a rather pungent, but not overly offensive, odor, which was a part of the “big barn smell” in those days. It was a weapon most farmers kept in their arsenals to alleviate the torture of their cattle from those flies. I believe it was purchased at the Merrimack Farmers’ Exchange in Laconia. I suspect it may have contained creosote. Meanwhile, the cows battled them with a weapon of their own, as well. They would swish their tails from side to side and over their backs as far as they could reach to try to keep them away. Yes, stable flies can deliver a painful bite and they show no mercy.