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Posted: Aug 07 2008 at 8:33pm | IP Logged Quote joann10
Here it is!

And it scared us!!!!!!
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Posted: Aug 07 2008 at 9:19pm | IP Logged Quote cathhomeschool
Some type of horse fly. Wiki's picture looks almost exactly like yours.

And they bite.

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Posted: Aug 07 2008 at 9:26pm | IP Logged Quote joann10
cathhomeschool wrote:
Some type of horse fly. Wiki's picture looks almost exactly like yours.

And they bite.


That sure looks like it! I am now real glad how we all ran outside to take its photo!
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Posted: Aug 07 2008 at 11:38pm | IP Logged Quote Jen L.
The other day my god-child (2 yo girl) and one of her sisters (4 yo) came in from outside. They said there was a turtle outside. I went to investigate and they showed me a huge cicada-looking fly (dead on the driveway). I was laughing so hard at the turtle. (How could something that large be a fly! I don't think they still believe me that it was a fly. )

I forgot to look it up - now I know what it is!

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Posted: Aug 08 2008 at 8:40am | IP Logged Quote cathhomeschool
   Yeah... I *thought* I'd seen a horse fly on several occasions... until I actually *did* see one. They are much bigger than I realized!

Glad you all didn't have too personal an experience, Joann!

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And the size of the welt when the horse-fly bites is amazing. I was in a marsh once with a friend who had taken off his shirt when he felt the bites, revealing FIVE huge welts on his back (each about two inches across).

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Posted: Aug 08 2008 at 12:44pm | IP Logged Quote DivineMercy
I should have asked my son first. When I showed it to him he knew what it was and offered his favorite piece of horse fly trivia. Horse flies are known to suck the blood of alligators and crocodiles. How fun. LOL

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