Damn Horseflies

Montana, check out this website of horsefly repellents for humans. You might find something worth trying here.

http://www.horseweb.com/links/Products/Fly_Spray_Insect_Control/index1.htm

Wow! Thanks so much Butrflynet :-D I didn't even know there were products to repel horseflies. I was just ranting. You just put a huge smile on my face ;-)

You're awesome ;-)

Nothing personal is meant by the following observation.

According to Greek folklore, being attractive to flies (houseflies, horseflies, deerflies, bluebottle flies, etc.) is a sign of being damned.

All poops go to hell.

Noddy, are you sure it has greek origin?

Beelzebub is traced past Greek to Hebrew Ba'al zebhubh and that origin is a Philistine god.

Always been kinda fond of Beelzebub, since Shakespeare and William Golding.

Hahaha. It's only horseflies every so often. Those things are attracked to anything that breaths, so maybe I'm just half damned.

You sure there's nothing personal there? ;-)

Woodspeople around these parts use garlic.
Munching a few cloves while working in the woods all day, apparently keeps a lot of flying beasties away.

Chocolate has exactly the opposite effect, sweetening your blood and driving them crazy.
Haven't tried it, but two lumberjacks here swear by it.

Might be worth experimenting.

Or make a few quick calls to a lumbermill, or anyone who spends lots of time outside -- everyone has their own ideas, and it might make a good newspaper article.

Thanks Codeborg. I'd try that, but as much as I like garlic, I can't imagine chewing on a raw clove. They're really not that bad here. The day I posted this I had one tormenting me to the point that I had to stop what I was doing and come inside, so I decided this would be a great place to vent ;-)

Hiya, Montana!

I hate horse-flies with a passion. I've spent many times underneath the water to escape them. Little buggers.

Rae
I hear that! You come up for air and they do a nose dive strait for you. <sight>

Craven--

Sorry for the delay in response. I'm having trouble with updates again. You're probably right about the source of the folklore. John Paul Sartre wrote/rewrote the Orestes story as "The Flies" and I picked up the notion from him without doing sufficient research.

Montana--

Getting personal? Of course not.

If The Elect know they are The Elect and glory in self-righteousness, then The Damned should know they are The Damned and grovel miserably.

Civil rights get in the way of predestination. If you are paranoid long enough, everyone will set out to get you.

hmmmm.....

Of course it's not personal! uh huh ;-)

Montana--

Thin skinned people wind up as fly bait--and flybait is damned.

Well, it's a good thing I'm not thin skinned then! As my skin thickened over the years, I learned the art of reading between the lines and my biggest lesson learned is not to allow myself to me damned by any creature "big or small" ;-)

Montana--

Isn't maturity soothing. Hold and extend your dominion!

Yes, maturity can be soothing, but too much of it can be stifling.

Horseflies suck (er) but my wrath is directed toward the SKEETERS these days. It's been very wet, and there are a lot of them. Evil little creatures. (Especially now that it's entirely possible they carry West Nile or some other horribleness. I actually know someone who had West Nile! About a week of misery, then fine.)