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Post by rdywenur on Jul 27, 2007 4:10:07 GMT -7
Yesterday. Perfect day for the beach. Perfect weather. Water was like glass and the minute I took off my clothes, arranged my stuff on my beach chair and sat down almost immediately I got attacked by stupid black flies. They would leave no one alone. Kept biting my ankles and even drawing blood.
Does anyone here know of a good remedy to keep them off you. I had to stay in the water most of the time but they even followed me in there. Wound up having to leave ealier than I wished or would have been eaten alive.
Chris the human buffet
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Post by justjohn on Jul 31, 2007 8:51:56 GMT -7
Chris,
A subject close to my heart. Did you know that the black fly is the state bird of New Hampshire.
Ahhhh - - - what would we do without this parasite getting in your eyes, ears, throat and anything that will run blood.
Was up in Canada this past week and no flies there. Must be an American variant.
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Post by kaima on Jul 31, 2007 14:43:18 GMT -7
Aha ... I was just reading that in the 1970's some school children pushed for an official state insect in Alaska, and that the dragonfly won out over the mosquito by about 3:1. It seems dragonflies eat mosquitoes and black flies, and the children know an ally when they see one!
Kai
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Post by rdywenur on Jul 31, 2007 18:21:18 GMT -7
One day when I was leaving work I noticed a grasshopper on the hood of my car. It stayed with me the whole ride on the expressway where I at least had to be driving 55 to 60m/hr and right up until I parked my car in the parking lot at the grocery store. I was surprised he stayed on so long or that the wind did not blow him off on the xpressway. Talk about a hitchhiker. He was gone when I came back to my car. Wonder where he went.
Master Po: "do you hear the grasshopper at your feet?" Young Caine: "old man, how is it that you hear these things?" Master Po: "young man, how is it that you do not?"
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