Biting flies at potholes?

[jdb]

I heard a rumor there are droves of biting flies at the potholes this year, any truth to this?

[rasbo]

I heard a rumor there are droves of biting flies at the potholes this year, any truth to this?

droves of everything that bites here in wilbur this year,probably the same there

[Rainier10]

Oh boy, heading there in a couple of weeks.  What keeps the biting flies away?

[rasbo]

Oh boy, heading there in a couple of weeks.  What keeps the biting flies away?

100 percent deet

[Rainier10]

Oh boy, heading there in a couple of weeks.  What keeps the biting flies away?

100 percent deet

Won't that also give me cancer in 14 minutes?

[Timberstalker]

Busch Lite.

[zagsfan1]

Was there all last week. Camped at State Park, and spent our days on a sand dune.  Wife actually commented they were better this year than years past.  Few mosquitoes, and always a good amount of gnats. 

[tlbradford]

Thermacell if it isn't too windy, keeps everything at bay.

[Angry Perch]

Oh boy, heading there in a couple of weeks.  What keeps the biting flies away?

Sitting in the bar at MarDon.

[Rainier10]

We camp out on the islands, the drinks are way better there than at Mardon.    We do take our therma cells and have therma cell laterns as well to try to keep the bugs at bay.

[rasbo]

Oh boy, heading there in a couple of weeks.  What keeps the biting flies away?

100 percent deet

Won't that also give me cancer in 14 minutes?

not sure used it for yrs,

[banishd]

I picked up sawyer picaridin lotion on amazon. Doesnt have the smell like deet and works well. Sometimes i do both if bugs are real bad.

[gallion_t]

I was there last weekend and didnt notice too many bugs. Worst place was at the campground by the golf course. Out on the water and at the houses at Mardon's i didnt notice a lot of bugs.

[eastsidemallard74]

Deer flies? They are common in the summer, and yes they bite.

[BigGoonTuna]

We camp out on the islands, the drinks are way better there than at Mardon.    We do take our therma cells and have therma cell laterns as well to try to keep the bugs at bay.

the big islands in the lake or the dunes?  I remember loving to play around on goose island as a kid, the last time i was there it had been turned into some kind of sanctuary for terns and cormorants,  and it stunk to high heaven.

If horse  flies bother you, stay out of the willow  i hate those horrid things.