Black flies, or Snow flies?

same here..don't know snow flys but black flys are the bane of canoe country.

Snow flies every winter.

i can see i have been bit by more than black flys here--------

FWIW, shnapps, wiskey, and burbon are all effective snow fly repellents.

I'd take black flies any day over moose flies or even sand flies (pretty much noseeums).

I'd MUCH rather have the snow than black flies. This morning was quite nice out. Mid-20's and absolutely no wind. Our snow mostly melted away on 12/26 ... just a few drift hold-outs.

Around here - maybe because we have the horses - we get way too many deer flies, generic deer fly-like biting flies (they are as big as deer flies, but no spotted wing), smaller house-fly-sized biting flies (they follow the horses mostly) and an accasional monsterous horse fly. We'll rarely get bit, except for the smaller flies - they love to bite at exposed legs when near the barn, but when those bigger ones bite ... OUCH!!

Luckily I've never been bitten by a horse fly. I would think that would hurt like the devil. Poor horses.

Ken

I'll take snow over flies anytime. Then again, deer flies don't much care for me, but I hate having them flying around me constantly.

I had a deer fly land on my hand last year in Florida. It took him almost two minutes to decide whether to bite me or not. I wanted to see what he would do, because I was doing a lot of vitamin B complex at the time and that notoriously makes me unpallatable to most insects. He finally chomped down, but I barely felt it. Then he flew over to a wall and landed. He made enough of a hole that I started to bleed, just barely. I went over to the wall and tried to shoo him off, and he wouldn't move. I finally swatted him. He didn't even try to escape. I dunno what it is about me and B complex, but I am always the last one to get bit at camp or at the ranch, if at all. Lucky me.

Working at the feed lots as a kid, I darn near would go insane from the flies buzzing around. I'd get in a closed room at the feed plant and grab a swatter and proceed to clear the room. Then I could finally kick back and take a nap.

I did get bit more often in Iraq, but not nearly as bad as most. I think I got bit half a dozen times there in the 9 months. Fortunately no sand fly bites.

I got bit by a horse fly once up in the Olympics mountains. Hurt like a wasp sting at first.

I'll take snow any day since I can at least move it out of the way. We've had very little snow so far this winter (a couple of dustings) so I'm still hankerin' for a good dump to brighten things up.

I'll take Snow Flies. I hate black flies in my eyes and ears.