The one bit of information that I missed before moving to Maine was that there is this little annoyance every May. The black fly (sometimes called a buffalo gnat, turkey gnat, or white socks) is any member of the family Simuliidae of the Culicomorpha infraorder. And are they annoying. They are a combination of a knat and a mosquito. What a combination, they fly around your face and then land on you and bite, it's the perfect annoyance machine. Not all of the little buggers bite only the females, go figure, love the blood of animals, where as the males survive on nectar. There are 32 varieties of black fly and not all of them bite. Just the ones that hang around me. And their bites are just great, itchy and the last for a couple of days. Like I said, "the perfect annoyance machine." And if you are so incline too there is the Seventh Annual Black Fly Festival in Adamant Vermont tomorrow. Don't forget to pack your bug spray.
Here is a little tune about the black fly written and sung by Christopher Hinton.
3 comments:
Sorry about the black fly. If it makes you feel any better, I live very close to Kentucky.
I feel your pain.
But I guess at least Kentuckians don't land on your face and bite you. Then again, black flies probably don't throw beer cans into the river. Ha ha Kentucky, just kidding. Kind of.
Post a Comment