Michigan - best time to avoid biting flies
I've been researching the UP of Michigan and along the West side of Michigan. I know summer is a short season and August is probably really busy. How is it after Labor Day? We don't mind it being coo...
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Parrothead Mike,
If the wind should come from the east (which seldom happens) the flies will almost always gather at the waterfront beach areas eastern shores and even up to a mile or so inland away from the water. Our winds are almost always from the SW to NW quadrants. According to the biologists etc report and a few TV programs, the flies connect an east wind as there being a strong weather front coming as it's an east wind that feeds a coming front and they will feed quickly and then seek shelter in the deep woods under leaves and other things etc when it rains. They demonstrated what a single drop of rain hitting a fly does to it. It almost always kills them and they know it. Even us humans have learned to eat when we know it will be a long time before we can eat again and most of us like a little etc nap after stuffing our guts too! It appears the flies aren't stupid either!
If the wind should come from the east (which seldom happens) the flies will almost always gather at the waterfront beach areas eastern shores and even up to a mile or so inland away from the water. Our winds are almost always from the SW to NW quadrants. According to the biologists etc report and a few TV programs, the flies connect an east wind as there being a strong weather front coming as it's an east wind that feeds a coming front and they will feed quickly and then seek shelter in the deep woods under leaves and other things etc when it rains. They demonstrated what a single drop of rain hitting a fly does to it. It almost always kills them and they know it. Even us humans have learned to eat when we know it will be a long time before we can eat again and most of us like a little etc nap after stuffing our guts too! It appears the flies aren't stupid either!
