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09-07-2008, 05:56 PM
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| | | What A Monster!!!!
Seeing this Horse-fly - Tabanus sudeticus really took be by suprise. I thought I had a good Idea on how big flies grow, but this was huge. It's getting on for Hornet proportions. It had the same effect on me as when I spotted my first Great Green Bush Cricket, you see them in books but that doesn't prepare you for seeing them for real. I was wondering if there is a bigger fly in Britain.
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09-07-2008, 05:59 PM
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They always give me a shiver when i see one, nicely captured ... |
09-07-2008, 06:07 PM
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Just imagen being bit by one of those  ouch. |
09-07-2008, 06:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Dogghound  Just imagen being bit by one of those ouch. | Do I have to ?  |
09-07-2008, 06:21 PM
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How big was it and the cricket?  |
09-07-2008, 06:38 PM
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Originally Posted by gaviston How big was it and the cricket? | I always use coins in the field to stop my mine playing tricks on me, the Horse-fly was a pound and a 5p together the cricket 3 pound coins.
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09-07-2008, 06:51 PM
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Ugly but cracking shot Ian 
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09-07-2008, 07:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Ian Gray I always use coins in the field to stop my mine playing tricks on me, the Horse-fly was a pound and a 5p together the cricket 3 pound coins.
Ian | That's a great way of measuring size IMO. They are huge!
Is the cricket mostly antennae? What's he eat and where is he found?
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09-07-2008, 07:47 PM
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Well as I mentioned on another thread I'm not keen on these at all and will run a mile from them. Recently on a walk they were everywhere so I had to put hood up, sleeves down and run as fast as I could to escape. Other half thought it was hilarious but I got the last laugh when he was bitten a week later whilst waiting for me to come out of the ladies . I never heard the last of it, you know what men are like with pain . There's no way they're having me for supper .
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09-07-2008, 08:10 PM
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I was bitten by something that looked very similar to this fly when i was a child and my arm blew up like a ballon and it it took about three weeks for all the poison to come out of my arm and has left me with about a 5mm round scar do horse fly bite people and is it likely this is what got me? | | | |
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