on a lighter note...

[steve white]

You're on Chincoteague Island in the summer.

E Texas mosquitos eat Chincoteague Island varieties for breakfast! One once stuck his beak thru a washtub a guy was hiding under--he bent its beak over with a hammer like a nail, and the thing flew off with the washtub!
There are actually fossilized remains of mosquitos there that would scare you....

 

[Hogpatrol]

The New Jersey ones aren't too friendly either. What the lack in puncturing ability, they make up in numbers. At the beach in the summer, between the greenheads, horseflies and mosquitoes, it's best to get a blood transfusion before donning your bathing suit.

 

[FrontLines]

 

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[steve white]

The New Jersey ones aren't too friendly either. What the lack in puncturing ability, they make up in numbers. At the beach in the summer, between the greenheads, horseflies and mosquitoes, it's best to get a blood transfusion before donning your bathing suit.

Are green heads deer flies? Those things are as brutal as any Tsetse fly! I. heard they stopped some outside construction projects cold, and I for one believe it.

 

[jpr9954]

 

[1911Fan]

 

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[JimP]

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Glad that I've never seen that one as I have walked through that airport.

 

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[Hogpatrol]

Are green heads deer flies? Those things are as brutal as any Tsetse fly! I. heard they stopped some outside construction projects cold, and I for one believe it.

They're a species of horsefliles. The bite for blood and the beaches are loaded with unwilling hosts.
FYI: https://nj1015.com/biting-flies-nj-beaches/

 

[jpr9954]

 

[Newboomer]

The New Jersey ones aren't too friendly either. What the lack in puncturing ability, they make up in numbers. At the beach in the summer, between the greenheads, horseflies and mosquitoes, it's best to get a blood transfusion before donning your bathing suit.

Sounds just like Maine in late May and early June. Damned black flies and horseflies will lug you off if you're not hanging onto something.

 

[Nyati]

 

[Nyati]