Flies, Flies and more Flies

That's the only thing I miss about not smoking any more, that always worked the best.

Take up chain smoking. :)

Camped next to the Pend Oreille river on the WA/ID border once. All sorts of flying insects so thick you couldn't stay outside. Only person in the entire CG outside was a guy that was in a recliner, chain smoking all day watching TV. Nary a bite he told us.

We have the same issue up here in northern Maine. The local Game Wardens indicated that August 1st to about the 14th is the breeding season for house flies. They need blood to breed and NO insect repellant appears to work. They tend to congregate around gravel banks and sunny open spaces.

We have moved our chore list around home for those two weeks of August and will camp prior to of after the blood thirsty little demons have hibernated.

Too bad for the weather in Maine for the last three weeks has been delightful.

Oh well, thirsty house flies in August and squirmy ice worms in January.

Lakeside

TenOC wrote:
We were camping this week and the flies were a real problem when we ate outdoors. Any suggestion on how to reduce this problem?????

Eat inside the camper. :W

Glue strips...

Screenhouse.

If you have full hook up put a fan outside blowing across the area your in

If a campground is anywhere near grazing cattle or horses you can expect flies to be a problem. The siren call of Realtors... "Horse property" usually means fly property. The problem is always worse in the summer so we select campgrounds carefully. Higher elevations seem to help but we have had to pack and leave a couple of spots {that we never returned to}.

Good luck.

:E