Horseflies are awful. Stinging insects slip a delicate little stiletto into you to deliver their toxin, and mosquitoes kindly administer anaesthetic before they perform minor surgery on you, but fucking horseflies grab your flesh between their mandibles and rip a hole in your skin.
The only good thing about horseflies is that they're slow and stupid, so they're easy to swat if you manage to spot one. Apparently some (maybe most) species are attracted to blue, and you can make a very effective horsefly trap by applying spray adhesive to a blue plate or something similar. Never tried it, but I've seen YouTube videos, so it must be true, right?
I notice that they're attracted to the heat of a car roasting in the sun. I wouldn't call them slow by any means. They're very easily confused with cicada in my parts because of the size. Cicada tend to be a little slower.
I guess there must be lots of different species of biting flies that are called horseflies in different places. The ones I'm very familiar with in Britain (because we live in a dairy farming area) are relatively slow, clumsy flyers. Definitely a lot slower than houseflies. Nature isn't wasteful, and you don't have to be too agile to nail a cow.
Is anyone else afraid of Hornets and Wasps
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Horse flies are terrifying.
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Horseflies are awful. Stinging insects slip a delicate little stiletto into you to deliver their toxin, and mosquitoes kindly administer anaesthetic before they perform minor surgery on you, but fucking horseflies grab your flesh between their mandibles and rip a hole in your skin.
The only good thing about horseflies is that they're slow and stupid, so they're easy to swat if you manage to spot one. Apparently some (maybe most) species are attracted to blue, and you can make a very effective horsefly trap by applying spray adhesive to a blue plate or something similar. Never tried it, but I've seen YouTube videos, so it must be true, right?
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I notice that they're attracted to the heat of a car roasting in the sun. I wouldn't call them slow by any means. They're very easily confused with cicada in my parts because of the size. Cicada tend to be a little slower.
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I guess there must be lots of different species of biting flies that are called horseflies in different places. The ones I'm very familiar with in Britain (because we live in a dairy farming area) are relatively slow, clumsy flyers. Definitely a lot slower than houseflies. Nature isn't wasteful, and you don't have to be too agile to nail a cow.