Ridecamp: Re: [RC] attack of the Killer Horseflies

>  From your description it sounds like a bot fly

Nope -- these things are *much* wider than the illustration on your link --
as wide as they are long.  We don't usually get a lot of them, but I've
rescued by gelding a couple of times recently.  My experience is that
they're so slow that you can swat/stun them with your hand.  If this happens
on the ground, I just smoosh them with my foot, but it's sure gross to see
all the blood that was inside of one of them.

Cindy
(in northern Maryland)


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