Quote Originally Posted by Blu (Ontario)
Are you sure the fellow didn't mean "Deer Fly"??



These are robust agressive biting flies with metalic green eyes and a real pest to livestock. A smaller version of the even larger horse fly.

I've not heard of a "Deer flea" before... Deer ticks - yes.

I HATE deer flies.

As for other winged peskies, I spent a week kilted in the mosquito and everything else infested woods of Northwestern Massachusetts. Any wind at all and they just disappear. I think only one had the audacity to vernture up the kilt. It was the last thing it ever did.