Mosquitos have a small sting and half the time their anesthetic works and you don’t notice they’re there until they’re full. And they often only work in the evenings, less at night and a lot less during the day.
Black flies are a flying platform for a jagged needle and jaws to tear open your skin. They don’t bite they tear open a hole to insert their needle. They fly during a hot summer afternoon and in the right temperature they’ll swarm, drive you insane, make you run like a maniac and eat you as you slowly flail on the ground until you stop moving.
Mosquitos will leave a little pin prick wound, black flies will leave a big welt the size of a loonie and just as hard and if you get caught outside surrounded by these demon insects, the welts will actually merge and harden your skin … and they will keep landing to tear open more.
"And the black flies, the little black flies
Always the black fly no matter where you go
I’ll die with the black fly a-pickin’ my bones
In North Ontar-eye-o-eye-o, In North Ontar-eye-o"
I would rather die from mosquitos than be tortured to death by black flies
That’s a lot worse than I thought it would be. Yikes. That’s a good reason to wear a few extra layers. And maybe some netting. And maybe acquire a flamethrower.
So that NFB short is an accurate description eh?
That was about black flies
Mosquitos have a small sting and half the time their anesthetic works and you don’t notice they’re there until they’re full. And they often only work in the evenings, less at night and a lot less during the day.
Black flies are a flying platform for a jagged needle and jaws to tear open your skin. They don’t bite they tear open a hole to insert their needle. They fly during a hot summer afternoon and in the right temperature they’ll swarm, drive you insane, make you run like a maniac and eat you as you slowly flail on the ground until you stop moving.
Mosquitos will leave a little pin prick wound, black flies will leave a big welt the size of a loonie and just as hard and if you get caught outside surrounded by these demon insects, the welts will actually merge and harden your skin … and they will keep landing to tear open more.
"And the black flies, the little black flies
Always the black fly no matter where you go
I’ll die with the black fly a-pickin’ my bones
In North Ontar-eye-o-eye-o, In North Ontar-eye-o"
I would rather die from mosquitos than be tortured to death by black flies
That’s a lot worse than I thought it would be. Yikes. That’s a good reason to wear a few extra layers. And maybe some netting. And maybe acquire a flamethrower.