Re: black flies
Posted by Beachlover on 9/27/2010, 6:09 pm
AlligatorPointer is correct (I'm used to calling them black flies, but they are in fact dog flies down here).

Skin-So-Soft is useless.  I've been trying various things for 10  years and the only effective remedy I've found is 99% deet -- but only for a short time.  Today, for example, the wind turned straight north while I was sitting, reading, in my beach chair, and within a short time I was the target of at least a half dozen angry biters.  Pulled out my deet, spread some in strategic locations (mostly legs/arms), and for about the next 45 minutes the flies lit but didn't bite, so I got a few chapters read.  After that I had to give up and go home -- all non-treated skin areas had been discovered, and I had tired of the battle and the bites.
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