Michigan - best time to avoid biting flies

Black flies to us seem to be at their worst in early July in the U.P. At least that's what we've noticed and they never have been bad or biting except for a couple days roughly 20 years ago when the breeze was coming from the east for a few days which seldom happens in Michigan. In fact, we're near Mackinaw City (The Straits) presently and have been here for the last week and have only seen 2 flies in all that time. Both died instantly with contact from the flyswatter! Neither were the biting type and were just plain house flies but not allowed in our RV or around us outside. It's called suicide! Had one mosquito so far up here and he bit the dust quickly but never got either of us before his demise.

We live and have lived on the Lake Michigan shore west of Grand Rapids for nearly 72 years now and seldom see flies and very seldom ever seen any biting flies away from area farms with live stock which naturally attracts black flies and deer flies. This spring we did have one outburst of mosquitos in May due to a record wet spring and haven't had hardly any skeeters or seen any since. If you want to avoid flies and skeeters, stay away from the wetlands or swamps or farms with livestock. Another area to avoid is where somebody cleaned their caught fish and left the remains on the ground or unwrapped in a trash barrel as some people are so inconsiderate! True for about any state or area. Skeeters breed in wet areas with standing water and they need blood for it to happen!

Please Do Not feed any mosquito's in Michigan as we want to keep them an "endangered specie".