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azasadny 07-16-2012 05:01 PM

Is this thing huge or what???!!!
 
On our front porch last weekend... One huge fly!!!

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vash 07-16-2012 05:04 PM

that is the tiniest key and FOB i have ever seen! :D

matt f 07-16-2012 05:06 PM

male or female?

azasadny 07-16-2012 05:10 PM

Don't know, but it looks like a huge fly with solid black wings. I'm trying to figure out what kind of fly it is... It was huge!!

stomachmonkey 07-16-2012 05:20 PM

I'd be trying to figure out if there were more and find a source for mail order bats.

masraum 07-16-2012 05:21 PM

Huge Black Fly - Tabanus atratus - BugGuide.Net

Giant black fly - Cuterebrinae? - Cuterebra tenebrosa - BugGuide.Net

944Larry 07-16-2012 05:35 PM

Art-the swamps down here in LA are full of the things. Will bite like hell too! We call them horse flies but that might not be right.

azasadny 07-16-2012 05:43 PM

From the link that Steve kindly provided...

"Looks like a male of the black horse fly Tabanus atratus. Males don't bite."

azasadny 07-16-2012 05:45 PM

I see horse flies every summer, just not this large!

mikeesik 07-16-2012 05:50 PM

You should dissect that. Could be some Alien robotic probe.

johnco 07-16-2012 05:59 PM

everytime I start filling a pool horse flys show up. and bring their little cousins the deer flys

rouxroux 07-16-2012 06:01 PM

Horse fly. Their bite is worse than a wasp or yellowjacket sting.

rouxroux 07-16-2012 06:02 PM

or Gub'mint drone.

masraum 07-16-2012 06:14 PM

Quote:

deer flys
The airborne piranha of the south!

944Larry 07-16-2012 07:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by azasadny (Post 6860012)
From the link that Steve kindly provided...

"Looks like a male of the black horse fly Tabanus atratus. Males don't bite."

OK-so I'm being bit by a girl. Still don't feel sexy.

HardDrive 07-16-2012 08:15 PM

Its big. Its black. Its from Detroit.

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83_Silberpfeil 07-16-2012 09:24 PM

"Is this thing huge or what???!!!"

I'm surprised no one jumped on this yet, so I'll chime in ...

That's what she said ;)

azasadny 07-17-2012 02:47 PM

I was waiting for that... too easy for the others, I guess.

Hugh R 07-17-2012 05:25 PM

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BeyGon 07-17-2012 05:45 PM

When I was working in the mountains of SE Alaska we would have flys like that, killer flys, and of course a couple mosquitos. The flys bit me, the mosquitos don't seem to.


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