Bar Harbor, Maine - Blink Bonnie or Grindstone Neck?

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15 hours ago, Valleygolfer said:

I use the Repel lemon eucalyptus spray and I do put that on my face. It seems to be better for black flies for me. I also wear a hat and spray the bahjeezus out of it.

I used to do a bike race in Keene every year. It was usually the 3rd week in May. The black flies were so bad one year we saw a course marshal wearing a bee keeper hat! Those little bastards are truly from the depths of hell.

Glad you had fun Steve! Haven't been downeast Maine for quite a while.

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29 minutes ago, boogielicious said:

I used to do a bike race in Keene every year. It was usually the 3rd week in May. The black flies were so bad one year we saw a course marshal wearing a bee keeper hat! Those little bastards are truly from the depths of hell.

Glad you had fun Steve! Haven't been downeast Maine for quite a while.

Black flies are awful and they will get under your hat if you aren't careful.  I used to play in a Maine State Golf Assoc. tournament on weekends, we'd play a different course every week.  One we used to play was in Enfield, ME.  Little 9 hole course in the middle of nowhere, you'd douse yourself with deet and you looked like pig pen from Peanuts walking down the fairway.  Those little bastards are just waiting for the sweat to wear off the bug-spray so they can get you.

I have lots of stories of battles with black flies.

[Valleygolfer]

1 hour ago, boogielicious said:

I used to do a bike race in Keene every year. It was usually the 3rd week in May. The black flies were so bad one year we saw a course marshal wearing a bee keeper hat! Those little bastards are truly from the depths of hell.

Glad you had fun Steve! Haven't been downeast Maine for quite a while.

The other day I thought I would wear pants to the range to combat the flies...my worst bites (any only) were at my sock line and calf under the pants... Welled up about 1/4 of an inch and the size of a nickel...and itching like crazy.

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53 minutes ago, jsgolfer said:

Black flies are awful and they will get under your hat if you aren't careful.  I used to play in a Maine State Golf Assoc. tournament on weekends, we'd play a different course every week.  One we used to play was in Enfield, ME.  Little 9 hole course in the middle of nowhere, you'd douse yourself with deet and you looked like pig pen from Peanuts walking down the fairway.  Those little bastards are just waiting for the sweat to wear off the bug-spray so they can get you.

I have lots of stories of battles with black flies.

Historians now believe the Vikings left North America because of the black flies and not the "fierce natives". Natives used to smear animal fat on their bodies to stop them.

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16 minutes ago, Valleygolfer said:

The other day I thought I would wear pants to the range to combat the flies...my worst bites (any only) were at my sock line and calf under the pants... Welled up about 1/4 of an inch and the size of a nickel...and itching like crazy.

This was my story with the black flies getting under my hat.  I was playing the course at the Limestone AFB, after it closed.  Played one August evening after doing some work on the base, I must've missed a spot in spraying my hat, because those damn black flies got under my hat, and when I took it off to wipe the sweat, you would thought i had been hit with a hatchet.  My hand was covered in all of the blood those damn things took.  Head itched for days.

 

8 minutes ago, boogielicious said:

Historians now believe the Vikings left North America because of the black flies and not the "fierce natives". Natives used to smear animal fat on their bodies to stop them.

Hadn't heard that but wouldn't surprise me.  LOL