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06-02-2014, 12:35 AM
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Internet Sanitation Engineer
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Crawfordville, FL
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Name : Rich Zuchowski
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Yellow flies!
Oh yeah, I really, really, REALLY hate yellow flies!
They are biting the crap out of Connie and I whenever we venture outside. Got four Mosquito Magnets set up and they are doing a number on the population, but their are a LOT of them out there, apparently. Never seen them this bad before....
http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/...yellow_fly.htm
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06-02-2014, 06:15 AM
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Z51
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Port Richey FL
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Once in a while one will bug me at my house around sundown.
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06-02-2014, 06:55 AM
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Had a few chase me down on the mower this weekend. They're pretty fast. Persistent too!
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06-02-2014, 11:12 AM
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Location: Auburndale, FL
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How that they and those damn love bugs don't live in N. Ga. or Tenn. In only a couple of years we will find out but on our repeated travel up there we haven't seen any.
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06-02-2014, 12:14 PM
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Internet Sanitation Engineer
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Crawfordville, FL
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Name : Rich Zuchowski
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They are pretty thick around here. I just walked around back of the house to do something with the pool timer and had several buzzing around me. Then when I came back to the front porch I had to stay out there and kill a few before I could open the door to go back inside without having them follow me in.
Don't these suckers have natural predators? SOMETHING must eat them. Besides my mosquito magnets, that is.
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06-07-2014, 05:10 PM
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Internet Sanitation Engineer
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Crawfordville, FL
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Name : Rich Zuchowski
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Damned things are getting REAL aggressive! They bite just as soon as they land on skin and hang on until you actually smack them.
Going outside is NO fun at all lately.
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06-08-2014, 09:00 AM
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Z51
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Port Richey FL
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rich Z
Damned things are getting REAL aggressive! They bite just as soon as they land on skin and hang on until you actually smack them.
Going outside is NO fun at all lately.
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Glad i don't have then like that around my place.
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06-23-2014, 11:07 AM
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Location: Bradenton, Fl.
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I've never seen these before. Are they all over Florida and other tropical states??
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06-23-2014, 07:01 PM
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Z51
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Port Richey FL
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Quote:
Originally Posted by THOR
I've never seen these before. Are they all over Florida and other tropical states??
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They seem to like wet woody areas.
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06-23-2014, 08:00 PM
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Clearwater
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We call them deer flies also, had em chase us out in the gulf going fishing (Weeki Wachee area)
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