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If you live in northern New England, you know that starting around Mother's Day and ending around Father's Day is black fly season. (My 6 year old son says: "They must love to bite moms and not dads.")
As far as I know, black flies (which are also called buffalo gnats) don't favor either male or female humans -- they only want your blood. Perhaps the appearance of black flies on Mother's Day is significant when you consider the life cycle of the insect: biting black flies are female only -- they need a meal of blood to lay eggs.
I heard of the dreaded New England "black fly" season when we first moved to New Hampshire 10 years ago. While these tiny, 1/6th of an inch, black flies are found all over the US, with the exception of Florida, they seem to like New Englanders (and Canadians) the best and this area has gotten a reputation for hosting what seems to be an annual convention for these insects from mid-spring to early summer.
While my friends who live outside the city of Keene, NH, complain bitterly of the black fly season -- which unhappily coincides with trying to get your tomatoes in the garden, among other things -- we have never had a huge problem here in Keene.
I have to say, I've only been bitten once or twice -- but if you've ever been bitten, it is not something you'll easily forget. It starts out innocently as what seems to be a mosquito bite -- but swells to alarming proportions. I tend to get bitten on my legs. My kids get them around their ears and neck -- tender areas, I presume, for a hungry egg-laying female.
My neighbor, who grew up in Maine, says that she doesn't get bitten very much anymore. "I heard that you develop immunity after a while," she said, and proceeded to tell me a story -- which was told to her -- about a man who went across the country on horseback a few years ago.
An eccentric fellow, he wore a huge black hat when riding through New England (right after Mother's Day, by the way) to "... catch black flies ..." When enough gathered on his hat, swept them up and ate them "... to build up his immunity ..."
Whether this is true or not (that he ate them) is subject to debate (if this is something you care to talk about at all!) but the fact that you build up an immunity has some basis in fact. According to the University of Maine's Cooperative Extension's information:
"Generally black fly bites cause some itching and minor swelling from the first few bites of the season, following which an immunity develops, with subsequent reduced reactions.Page: 1 2
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