Roads End Naturalist

Exploring the natural world as we wander at the end of the road

Tag: biting flies

  • That Has Got to Itch

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    The frog says, times fun when you’re having flies! ~David Bankson Earlier in the week I was walking around the yard doing a little filming to help with a project on the importance of native plants (see Hometown Habitat). I was using the 500mm telephoto and a 1.4 teleconverter in hopes of getting some birds, Read more…

    Written by

    Mike Dunn

  • Green-eyed Monsters

    Okay, monster is a bit too strong a term for this beauty, until you have been bitten by one, that is. Luckily, most horseflies are merely bothersome to me relative to the many other types of flying biting things that attack us here in the southeast – mosquitoes and deer flies being much more aggravating Read more…

    Written by

    Mike Dunn