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[โ€“] foodandart@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

FML! It was well over 90 degrees farenheits last week and the flies were BITING!

I got nailed several times by one of the fuckers in my car until it escaped out the window.

It was just a regular black housefly. I had no idea they could bite. Like a needle stabbed into me.

At least the mosquito is relatively painless.

Fuck biting houseflies.

[โ€“] tpihkal@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Most likely a stable fly. House flies have sponge like mouth parts for soaking up liquid and are incapable of biting.

[โ€“] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I had never heard of stable flies before. Here we have horse flies that are apparently similar but not the same species as stable flies.

[โ€“] ShankShill@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

At work we get deer flies. Bites can be described as feeling like getting stabbed with a serrated needle. Shirts, DEET, jeans, don't matter. They need blood to reproduce and they're horny enough to find a way through it all.

And they're smart enough to always go behind you.

Mount plasma coil on head. Zap with 200kV if get too close.