Definitely this month in New England...July - horrible biting insects. They go berserk with the warm temps and high humidity. This morning I was sipping tea watching hummingbirds while massive orange-backed horse flies bounced off my window screens.
We have another salt-marsh horse fly, the greenhead, that actually has incisor teeth. It bites a divot of flesh out of you and drinks the pooling blood. You get little round purple scars on your legs that last years. They also coordinate group attacks like bees - they wait until they have numbers and then attack all at once in a swarm to overwhelm your defense.
We have another salt-marsh horse fly, the greenhead, that actually has incisor teeth. It bites a divot of flesh out of you and drinks the pooling blood. You get little round purple scars on your legs that last years. They also coordinate group attacks like bees - they wait until they have numbers and then attack all at once in a swarm to overwhelm your defense.
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