March flies.
#1
March flies.
MM, i suspect you might know, but if anyone else does please do say so.
When i was last in oz the march flies were really getting my hackles up. No repellant would keep them off (that i tried anyway).
Now, you don't get a itchy mark like with a mozzie, and they don't really hurt...but they are damned annoying!!
Satisfying too in a way i guess. They are'nt the quickest bugs around and are generally easy to whack off with a thong....
How do you keep em off??
When i was last in oz the march flies were really getting my hackles up. No repellant would keep them off (that i tried anyway).
Now, you don't get a itchy mark like with a mozzie, and they don't really hurt...but they are damned annoying!!
Satisfying too in a way i guess. They are'nt the quickest bugs around and are generally easy to whack off with a thong....
How do you keep em off??
#2
Don't hurt! are you sure.
Got absolutely hammered by the bloody things on Frasier last year.
When they bite it hurt me like hell. Or am I just a wimp.
Got absolutely hammered by the bloody things on Frasier last year.
When they bite it hurt me like hell. Or am I just a wimp.
#3
Originally posted by Nibbs
Don't hurt! are you sure.
Got absolutely hammered by the bloody things on Frasier last year.
When they bite it hurt me like hell. Or am I just a wimp.
Don't hurt! are you sure.
Got absolutely hammered by the bloody things on Frasier last year.
When they bite it hurt me like hell. Or am I just a wimp.
They DO hurt like hell, funny when its someone else, but not when they come after you....lol
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Last edited by unrefined_mind; Jul 4th 2003 at 12:31 pm.
#4
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Re: March flies.
Originally posted by PeteY
MM, i suspect you might know, but if anyone else does please do say so.
When i was last in oz the march flies were really getting my hackles up. No repellant would keep them off (that i tried anyway).
Now, you don't get a itchy mark like with a mozzie, and they don't really hurt...but they are damned annoying!!
Satisfying too in a way i guess. They are'nt the quickest bugs around and are generally easy to whack off with a thong....
How do you keep em off??
MM, i suspect you might know, but if anyone else does please do say so.
When i was last in oz the march flies were really getting my hackles up. No repellant would keep them off (that i tried anyway).
Now, you don't get a itchy mark like with a mozzie, and they don't really hurt...but they are damned annoying!!
Satisfying too in a way i guess. They are'nt the quickest bugs around and are generally easy to whack off with a thong....
How do you keep em off??
#5
Re: March flies.
Originally posted by PeteY
MM, i suspect you might know, but if anyone else does please do say so.
When i was last in oz the march flies were really getting my hackles up. No repellant would keep them off (that i tried anyway).
Now, you don't get a itchy mark like with a mozzie, and they don't really hurt...but they are damned annoying!!
Satisfying too in a way i guess. They are'nt the quickest bugs around and are generally easy to whack off with a thong....
How do you keep em off??
MM, i suspect you might know, but if anyone else does please do say so.
When i was last in oz the march flies were really getting my hackles up. No repellant would keep them off (that i tried anyway).
Now, you don't get a itchy mark like with a mozzie, and they don't really hurt...but they are damned annoying!!
Satisfying too in a way i guess. They are'nt the quickest bugs around and are generally easy to whack off with a thong....
How do you keep em off??
Just a minute....... did you say "thong"?
If you kept your underwear on, you might no get bitten so much
#6
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Joined: Feb 2003
Location: Formally Outback SA. Now Brighton SA
Posts: 138
Flies - yuk - dirty annoying little bleeders. Anyone got any tips, or grandma's recipes to keep them at bay - like smeer yourself with elephant dung and lavender. I haven't been over in the heat of the summer so I haven't had a great deal of experience with the flies. Dont' mind spiders too much but its cockroaches and flies that give me the jip. And before the insults start with - what's a lily livered sheila pom coming to Oz is if you don't like flies - I am not a total wimp having handled a 17 foot python, large eagles, ferrets to name but a few, in my time.
Any tips for flies and what areas are there most flies. Any tips ditto re cockroaches. I have heard that some fly. Oh yeah and mossies.
Elaine
Any tips for flies and what areas are there most flies. Any tips ditto re cockroaches. I have heard that some fly. Oh yeah and mossies.
Elaine
#7
Re: March flies.
Originally posted by sundarize
Just a minute....... did you say "thong"?
If you kept your underwear on, you might no get bitten so much
Just a minute....... did you say "thong"?
If you kept your underwear on, you might no get bitten so much
Wondered why i got the funny looks walking down the beach !
#8
Re: March flies.
Originally posted by ellen1
What a thong??
What a thong??
Ellen, thats what the Ausies call flip flops
Whisky
#9
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Joined: Jan 2003
Location: UK
Posts: 236
wow whiskey, you learn something everyday !
#10
Re: March flies.
Originally posted by PeteY
MM, i suspect you might know, but if anyone else does please do say so.
When i was last in oz the march flies were really getting my hackles up. No repellant would keep them off (that i tried anyway).
Now, you don't get a itchy mark like with a mozzie, and they don't really hurt...but they are damned annoying!!
Satisfying too in a way i guess. They are'nt the quickest bugs around and are generally easy to whack off with a thong....
How do you keep em off??
MM, i suspect you might know, but if anyone else does please do say so.
When i was last in oz the march flies were really getting my hackles up. No repellant would keep them off (that i tried anyway).
Now, you don't get a itchy mark like with a mozzie, and they don't really hurt...but they are damned annoying!!
Satisfying too in a way i guess. They are'nt the quickest bugs around and are generally easy to whack off with a thong....
How do you keep em off??
#11
Originally posted by grubelice
Flies - yuk - dirty annoying little bleeders. Anyone got any tips, or grandma's recipes to keep them at bay - like smeer yourself with elephant dung and lavender. I haven't been over in the heat of the summer so I haven't had a great deal of experience with the flies. Dont' mind spiders too much but its cockroaches and flies that give me the jip. And before the insults start with - what's a lily livered sheila pom coming to Oz is if you don't like flies - I am not a total wimp having handled a 17 foot python, large eagles, ferrets to name but a few, in my time.
Any tips for flies and what areas are there most flies. Any tips ditto re cockroaches. I have heard that some fly. Oh yeah and mossies.
Elaine
Flies - yuk - dirty annoying little bleeders. Anyone got any tips, or grandma's recipes to keep them at bay - like smeer yourself with elephant dung and lavender. I haven't been over in the heat of the summer so I haven't had a great deal of experience with the flies. Dont' mind spiders too much but its cockroaches and flies that give me the jip. And before the insults start with - what's a lily livered sheila pom coming to Oz is if you don't like flies - I am not a total wimp having handled a 17 foot python, large eagles, ferrets to name but a few, in my time.
Any tips for flies and what areas are there most flies. Any tips ditto re cockroaches. I have heard that some fly. Oh yeah and mossies.
Elaine