

You don’t know to put cortisone cream on the bite until it appears hours later. You never know that they have bitten you until later.

You never feel them land or crawl on your skin. No warning buzz or hum alerts you to their presence.
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Black flies will also crawl up your pants legs to the skin around your ankles or inside your sleeves to reach the thin skin inside your wrists. In either case, they aim for the delicate, thin skin behind your ears, around your eyes, and in any places you can’t reach. Stealth creatures, black flies sneak up on you unawares, but at times they swarm around your head and in front of your face. Unfortunately, those are the same months we want to shake off our doldrums, take off our winter clothes, and enjoy the start of summer. Black Flies: The Stealth Insectīlack flies, for those of you who don’t have them, are small but exceedingly annoying creatures that make working and playing outside an absolute misery for a few months every year. I thought it was too soon and too bright to worry about black flies and I paid the price. I went out during the afternoon to work in my perennial border, which is in full sun.

Spring only lasted for two days before Second Winter set in, so I had to get a lot done in a short time. Spring finally arrived in Massachusetts last week and I went outside to do some gardening.
