Deer flys

[Bruno of NH]

The deer flys are bad this year at my place
Trimming logs in the back log yard is almost unbearable. 
Poor Piney he covers himself in the sawdust pile

[Bruno of NH]

Piney 

[Old saw fixer]

Plenty of them here in Virginia, too.

[Andries]

Mosquitoes and black flies have not been bad this year, due dry conditions here in NW Ontario.
The deer flies are the opposite. I need to get up early and get a lot done before they warm up and take off after me.

[Jeff]

Bruno, the deer flies are the worst I have ever seen them this year here in the U.P.. I sent cedar back home with Tammy yesterday as they were tearing him up. Maybe in a week or two he can come back.

[Hilltop366]

Search "deerfly" or "horsefly trap". Lots of good info here on the forum.

I tried tying some blue solo cups with some sticky stuff from a garden centre from tree branches around my cabin and caught a bunch of them. It really seemed to make a difference.

[Bruno of NH]

Piney won't go in the house if I'm outside. He's my right hand. He's all bit up .

[thecfarm]

The color blue does work!!!!
Not bad around here for deer flys
My Father always called them sweat flys.

[21incher]

We have them bad this year also.This years batch is fast. My zero  turn will do about  13 mph and I have always  been able to out run them in the past. This year they can keep up with me and circle until they take a chunk of my skin. Never seen them as fast and focused as this year's batch.  Plus they're out there all day unlike the past.
Hope  everything  is going well with you Bruno and life is getting  easier.

[Greenie]

Take a fresh dryer sheet and clip it to your back collar. It looks silly in town, but in the woods it's the only thing I've found that keeps deer flies away. 

[Big_eddy]

My neighbour has an artificial dragonfly on a flexible rod that he clips to his hat. Swears it works magic at keeping deer flies away. 

[cutterboy]

Andries, here too. Not many black flies this year but a very bad year for deerflies.

[Jeff]

If we cpuld just engineer deerflies to eat blackflies and mosquitoes to suck the blood out of the deerflies, and all of them to leave us alone!

[Cedarman]

I would sincerely like to thank all of you that are keeping the deer flies in your area.  So far this year, I have not had a single one buzzing my head as I walk down the tree lined road for  3/4 miles.  
I can remember years past when there would be quite a few buzzing.  They would get in my hair and I would kill them.
Also, no mosquitoes or black flies.  Luckily we are not in black fly territory.
But, I can send you quite a few ticks and chiggers if you are running a little short.
Again, a big thank you.

[Greenie]

I spray Talstar P (mist blower) on my lot and it works well for mosquitoes, black flies, and ticks. It does not touch deer flies (maybe they have a larger range) The color blue does not attract them and insect repellent doesn't seem to repel them either. Driving in to a worksite over a service road deer flies followed us for miles and could keep up with us @ 30 mph.  

[barbender]

It only seems to excite them when you try to run, or even outdrive them on an atv etc. They enjoy making sport of you, I think😂

This reminds me of the time the lowboy guy and me were shuffling my forwarder off a job. The deer and horse flies were atrocious that summer. When I jumped in the pickup, there was a horse fly buzzing around our heads. Right then, my faithful sidekick Walt (my black pug) jumped up and grabbed that fly. Even better, he drug it back to his spot under the back seat that I called his "lair", where he finished the job. There was crunching, lip smacking, panting, and wings buzzing. It was Walt's first confirmed kill😂

[thecfarm]

The color blue seemed to work for the big boss at the hardware store.
He had 2 halfs of a blue barrel set up in the air above his four wheeler. he put tangle foot? on each one. He drove the 4 wheeler up and down his trails the day before he was going to have a get together. he claimed it worked for him. I saw a picture of the set up.

[Greenie]

I wire-tied a blue colored tanglefoot covered plastic bucket atop the ROP on the tractor had it there for the season. Not one deer fly stuck to it. 

[WhitePineJunky]

Nothing aggravates me more than black flies, no see ums and esp deer flies. The way they crash bomb into ur face and hair etc.

I been at it at 5am crack of light and they are STILL some out at that early time. But most don't come out until around 10am