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Horse Flys are Fucked 6
#26636343 - 04/29/20 09:14 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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These dirty cocksuckers show up every year like they're wanted, fuck sakes.

Ugly little bastards.
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1234go
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Re: Horse Flys are Fucked [Re: BooShow] 2
#26636354 - 04/29/20 09:19 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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They're relentless. Like, I respect and love them for being what they are...but fuck horse flies.
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Re: Horse Flys are Fucked [Re: BooShow] 3
#26636359 - 04/29/20 09:22 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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They are annoying as fuck. Deer flys too
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Re: Horse Flys are Fucked [Re: BooShow] 4
#26636362 - 04/29/20 09:22 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Are horse flies the same thing as bot flies? If so i can't deny that i've removed them alive from spider webs before and put them on thread leads. It's fun to have a fly on a lead, it just flies around zzzz.
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Re: Horse Flys are Fucked [Re: Magenta] 3
#26636368 - 04/29/20 09:26 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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No horse flies just lacerated the sin and drink blood but lay their eggs not in living tissue. There are bot flies up here tho. Hunters cleaning caribou come across pupae/eggs in the skin all the time.
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Re: Horse Flys are Fucked [Re: SonicTitan] 4
#26636386 - 04/29/20 09:34 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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I concur with you 1234go. I love nature and all, but horse flys, spruce beetles, any other pinchy, bitey little horrorshow can take off.
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Re: Horse Flys are Fucked [Re: BooShow] 4
#26636418 - 04/29/20 09:52 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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They just want to kiss you - not their fault their mouth is shaped like 2 swords with jagged pincers on the end. ha, but really tho, I’ve got memories from being a child while at the pool and everyone running from them and hiding underwater like horse flies were kamakazie dice bombers.
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They're always plotting.
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Magenta
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Re: Horse Flys are Fucked [Re: BooShow] 2
#26636439 - 04/29/20 10:00 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Sneaky mother fuckers!
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Re: Horse Flys are Fucked [Re: Magenta] 3
#26636499 - 04/29/20 10:32 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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The Blind Ass
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Solution = buy a salt shotgun , I forget the brand name but it’s used to kill bugs without making a mess. Shoots salt shot. Is dope.
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Quote:
The Blind Ass said: Solution = buy a salt shotgun , I forget the brand name but it’s used to kill bugs without making a mess. Shoots salt shot. Is dope.
putting spit balls in a pellet gun works. Dont use it on anything too delicate though it can still cause minor damage.
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tyrannicalrex
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Re: Horse Flys are Fucked [Re: BANANA.MAN] 3
#26636854 - 04/29/20 01:22 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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There was in island off the coast of florida and I took a boat ride to go swimming nude one day. They didn't tell us it was this biting fly season there. Had to keep my head just above water and swat them off my face the entire time.
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1234go
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Quote:
tyrannicalrex said: Had to keep my head just above water and swat them off my face the entire time.
that's what she said!
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Re: Horse Flys are Fucked [Re: 1234go] 1
#26636891 - 04/29/20 01:44 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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LOL!
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tyrannicalrex said: Had to keep my head just above water and swat them off my face the entire time.
that's what she he said!
Typical saturday night at the gay bar, ho hum.
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Re: Horse Flys are Fucked [Re: BooShow]
#26637064 - 04/29/20 03:30 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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I was camping once in Oregon and one of them flew into my small text! The bastard was HUGE and made a ton of noise! Damn Horse Flies, a monster i tell ya! Micro-monster!
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flugelizor
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I heard they regurgitate on your skin and suck up your flesh as it digests... Definitely Satan spawn.
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Thanatos10
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Re: Horse Flys are Fucked [Re: flugelizor]
#26637175 - 04/29/20 04:29 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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I have never experienced them, but I have seen a black widow
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Re: Horse Flys are Fucked [Re: SonicTitan]
#26637251 - 04/29/20 05:06 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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SonicTitan said: No horse flies just lacerated the sin and drink blood but lay their eggs not in living tissue. There are bot flies up here tho. Hunters cleaning caribou come across pupae/eggs in the skin all the time.
You are right they lacerate, not regurgiate. Not sure where I heard that. Before wikipedia probably...
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ModularMind
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Quote:
The Blind Ass said: Solution = buy a salt shotgun , I forget the brand name but it’s used to kill bugs without making a mess. Shoots salt shot. Is dope.
It’s called the bug-a-salt. It makes short work of house centipedes. My girl sleeps with it on her night stand.

I prefer a Glock 19
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1234go
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Re: Horse Flys are Fucked [Re: Thanatos10] 1
#26637383 - 04/29/20 06:22 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Re: Horse Flys are Fucked [Re: 1234go] 2
#26637420 - 04/29/20 06:42 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Horse and deer flies are indeed fucked, luckily you don't see them much in my neck of the woods. Instead, we get swarms of buffalo gnats that'll bite the shit out of you. Little bastards actually kill livestock.
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Got bit by a black widow when I was a whippersnapper, wouldn't recommend it.
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That thing is badass!!! I need one! 
Have u shot a fly with a Glock before?
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Certain times of year horse flies and March flies swarm around my house. They have a weakness though, the colour blue. They freaking love it. We put a big blue plastic bowl outside full if water which has some dish soap added (to reduce surface tension) and it'll half fill in a day. We catch 1000's of them and they leave us alone. Scoop them out of the bowl with a big stainless serving spoon with holes every day and chuck them on the garden as fertilizer.
I wish I'd thought of it, but all the credit goes to Mrs Northy.
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BooShow
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Re: Horse Flys are Fucked [Re: Northerner]
#26637476 - 04/29/20 07:08 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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ModularMind
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LogicaL Chaos said: That thing is badass!!! I need one! 
Have u shot a fly with a Glock before?
I guess it’s possible. That bug-a-salt doesn’t actually work great for house flies IME. I imagine it would even less so for a monster horse fly.
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Nice.
I find it does work for most flying anything... gotta get close sometimes or shopt multi-x's. mayflys are a good target.
I was given the yellow one for my birthday. Works well.
Awesome commercials too....
I put a screw in mine to block the safety so now all i have to do is cock it and squeeze 😎 Helps if multiple shots required
Oh and they sell a lazer sight too, got one for my step dad.😇
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I’ve honestly only gone after one fly with it and it took 3 shots to kill it. May have been bad shots. On the other hand, house centipede legs go everywhere and it’s one and done from anywhere inside 3 feet.
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There's a neat trick to deal with them. They sense warm dark silhouettes and naturally fly up and away. Exploiting this you get some kind of black object, a ball painted or sone black heavy rubber. Set it so it basks in the ghe sun and fashion a slanted roof for it for the flies to bump off. Finally set beneath this a tub of water with some dish soap in it to lower the surface tension so that when they fall in they drown.
You can buy these or make them. It really is effective.
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The Blind Ass
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Re: Horse Flys are Fucked [Re: Kimble] 2
#26637516 - 04/29/20 07:35 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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It would see our species is practiced in warfare against these insect invaders.
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BooShow
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This is also why I love dragonflies. They eat all those pinchy bastards.
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Re: Horse Flys are Fucked [Re: BooShow] 2
#26637529 - 04/29/20 07:40 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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There’s always a bigger fish.
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Re: Horse Flys are Fucked [Re: flugelizor] 1
#26637561 - 04/29/20 07:57 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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SonicTitan said: No horse flies just lacerated the sin and drink blood but lay their eggs not in living tissue. There are bot flies up here tho. Hunters cleaning caribou come across pupae/eggs in the skin all the time.
You are right they lacerate, not regurgiate. Not sure where I heard that. Before wikipedia probably...
I used to be fascinated by insects as a child and used to read a lot and catch bugs/spiders all te time. They feast on blood not broken down flesh like a house fly. It would probably look like tiny ulcers or something if they to bite us.
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Re: Horse Flys are Fucked [Re: SonicTitan]
#26637573 - 04/29/20 08:05 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Bugs are cool, i save the ones i find in the warehouse at work, on a board above my desk in the DMSO lab. Industrial labs rule

I will take a better pic tomorrow, this is blurry
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I remember the first time I came across a garden spider I freaked out haha. Walkingnmy dog in tall grass. I went back and caught one, there was a group of like 5 of them. I took it home and my om identified it for me. She went to university for botany and entomology.
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Re: Horse Flys are Fucked [Re: BooShow] 2
#26637591 - 04/29/20 08:17 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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We don't get too many horseflies around here but deer flies can be pretty annoying sometimes when it's hot. I think if you kill one on you the rest smell it and follow you more. I try to catch them instead and rip off one wing.
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When I lived in SE OK there was a restaurant that hung sandwich baggies full of plain water around the perimeter of the roof/overhang to keep flies away. They told me that the flies eyes see the refracting prisms and it sort of blinds them and keeps them at bay.
Why does a bag of water keep flies away? The fly bases his movement by light and the refracted light coming through the water in the plastic bag confuses the fly causing him to move on to a place that is easier on the eyes. And when you have a few thousand to deal with at one time, the easier, the better.Jul 11, 2010
I also got a suggestion to paint the ceiling of a porch on a patio of a house sky blue to keep wasps from building nests. It fools them into thinking it's the real sky and they like nests to be under and hidden. I never saw one wasp nest in 3 years after I painted it. Plus it looked awesome.
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Used to see water bags with a penny in it too around here
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