Month of the Yellow Fly
We are several weeks in and it is just about unbearable to be outside even though our outside looks so inviting and green right now. 
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ampfixer
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Re: Month of the Yellow Fly
June 17, 13 12:28 AM
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Are they around in late October? In fact, what are the pests one might encounter down your way in late October?
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Re: Month of the Yellow Fly
June 17, 13 12:57 AM
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Probably Mosquitoes, but not enough to be concerned about.
The yellow flies come out in the early summer and last anywhere from 3 weeks to 2 months. It's different every year.
They thrive in forest and field that border wet lands so they are quite common in Florida but almost unknown in the sub urbanized areas.
October is very nice down here. Nov and Dec are possibly nicer.
Mosquitoes are around when and where ever it is wet and not too cold.
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Re: Month of the Yellow Fly
June 17, 13 1:50 PM
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Yellow flies HURT. I HATE yellow flies. They seem to really love it around rivers and creeks. They make it so you cannot fish in some creeks in S GA where I grew up. Get near the creek, down in the woods and they are a constant threat.
Man, I feel for you... about all we have around here is mosquitos.
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Re: Month of the Yellow Fly
June 17, 13 4:40 PM
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We get Black Flies, Horse Flies, Mosquitoes, June Bugs...all kinds here...
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Re: Month of the Yellow Fly
June 17, 13 5:08 PM
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So if you cross-breed yellow flies with blue flies, do you get green flies?
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Re: Month of the Yellow Fly
June 17, 13 5:10 PM
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Re: Month of the Yellow Fly
June 17, 13 5:17 PM
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mike_mccue
sort of
Well, keep trying!
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Re: Month of the Yellow Fly
June 17, 13 5:24 PM
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The space you have will always be exceeded in direct proportion to the amount of stuff you have...Thornton's Postulate. Bushpianos
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Re: Month of the Yellow Fly
June 17, 13 5:53 PM
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Those critters are very similar to the deer flies we have in Ontario. More common around water and they take a core sample when they bite.
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Re: Month of the Yellow Fly
June 17, 13 6:00 PM
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More and more reasons why I'm liking the Pacific Northwest. Even the wasps are far more timid than the aggressive ones down in So. Cal.
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Re: Month of the Yellow Fly
June 17, 13 6:06 PM
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ampfixer
Those critters are very similar to the deer flies we have in Ontario. More common around water and they take a core sample when they bite.
You got it... J
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Re: Month of the Yellow Fly
June 18, 13 9:47 AM
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Deer files, horse flies, green flies and yellow flies..... we got them all in differing numbers. Fortunately, none of them are really very common.
There is a season for the yellow files. Deer and horse files are not very common and so not a big problem. Green head files are more common near the beaches in NC.
Instead, we have an abundance of gnats and mosquitoes.
100% DEET works very well. It's probably not good for you either but it does keep the bugs off of you. I'm not afraid to use the 40% DEET or the 100% DEET when I'm out working and the bugs are really bad. Out in the woods, ticks are an issue as well and DEET repels them too.
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Re: Month of the Yellow Fly
June 18, 13 10:52 AM
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These yellow flies are a persistant bunch......they actually follow you around and I've been bitten a few times by them. Last month, we had the doors open and about 5 of them got in the house (following the little ones around, but none of them attacked).....I'm a pretty decent shot with rubber-bands, and managed to got all of them (the fly's....not the children  ). Now I see why they have these screened porches/Florida rooms. :))
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Re: Month of the Yellow Fly
June 18, 13 11:58 AM
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My daughter just bought us a portable bug zapper. It looks like a smaller tennis racquet, with a switch on the side and 3 metal screens on the racquet. Press the switch and the screens are electrified to 2750 volts. the outside screens are not charged but the center one is. The openings are big enough for flies, mosquitoes, and other even larger insects to get legs and other body parts in between those highly charged screens..... it is such a satisfying thing to swing that around in the air at a mosquito and hear the SNAP of the discharge as a bug gets electrocuted.
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