I just got back from picking up packages, and it is just insane out there. Insane with horse flies! I don’t remember ever seeing so many of them before.
When I go outside, they start flying around me in clouds. This morning, I had them getting stuck on my hat somehow, and when I took my hat off to wave them away, they got stuck in my hair!
While backing the car out of the garage, they are bouncing off the windows. As I drove up the road to the intersection, I could see clouds of them outside my window, keeping up – they can fly really fast – and still bouncing off the window! When I got out of the car to open or close the gate, in the few moments the door was open, there were several stuck inside, bouncing against the inside of the windshield.
The sun room, though. Oh, my goodness! This is the down side to leaving the doors open. There are hundreds of them in there, bouncing off all the windows and crawling around the frames. The buzzing noise is so loud! There was one butterfly stuck in there and bouncing off a window, but I was able to get it out. The horse flies? Some might rediscover the open door, but most will most likely bounce themselves off the windows until they drop dead.
Usually, it’s mosquitoes we have problems with. Especially with the wet spring we had, and how moist things still are, even without rain. We do have them, but not especially high numbers of them. It’s all horse flies this year, instead!
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We always have horse flies in the summer, but I wonder why we have so many of them this year? The poor cattle and other farm animals around us. Not to mention the wildlife. Horse flies like to be around bodies of water, but much prefer livestock – or anything else they can get blood from! They seem to be leaving the cats alone, thank goodness. They certainly had an extra level of discomfort when trying to work outside!
The Re-Farmer
The Re-Farmer 