Three-spot Horse Fly (Tabanus trimaculatu). I kid you not.
It’s the females who bite; I think this one’s a male. He has his father’s eyes, right?
Flyday
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Once while sitting bored on the shore of Lough Derg, Ireland, I innocently let a horsefly linger on my thigh, which was covered by light pants. Everyone else was preparing their sailboats, and I found entertainment in the companionship of a harmless fly. As a remembrance of our brief encounter, a large red welt and intolerable itch accompanied me for days. No wonder horses hate them. (My second post in memory of an insect bite. Surprising)
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Some of the flies are vicious! Greenflies and blackflies up in New England, for instance, I don’t want to meet on a sunny day.
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