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Is this thing huge or what???!!!
On our front porch last weekend... One huge fly!!!
 
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that is the tiniest key and FOB i have ever seen!
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male or female?
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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!!
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07-16-2012, 04:10 PM
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I'd be trying to figure out if there were more and find a source for mail order bats.
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Huge Black Fly - Tabanus atratus - BugGuide.Net
Giant black fly - Cuterebrinae? - Cuterebra tenebrosa - BugGuide.Net
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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.
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07-16-2012, 04:35 PM
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From the link that Steve kindly provided...
"Looks like a male of the black horse fly Tabanus atratus. Males don't bite."
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07-16-2012, 04:43 PM
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I see horse flies every summer, just not this large!
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07-16-2012, 04:45 PM
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You should dissect that. Could be some Alien robotic probe.
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everytime I start filling a pool horse flys show up. and bring their little cousins the deer flys
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Horse fly. Their bite is worse than a wasp or yellowjacket sting.
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or Gub'mint drone.
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Its big. Its black. Its from Detroit.
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07-16-2012, 07:15 PM
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"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 
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07-16-2012, 08:24 PM
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I was waiting for that... too easy for the others, I guess.
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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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