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27-06-2010, 05:08 PM
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| | | What is this eating me?
I assume it's some sort of horse fly.  |
27-06-2010, 05:18 PM
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| | | Re: What is this eating me?
Oh yes indeed. Has the 'ouch' kicked in yet?
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27-06-2010, 05:20 PM
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| | | Re: What is this eating me?
Hi Mike
It is a Horsefly and one of the Clegs Haematopota sp.The photo looks worth the ouch!
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27-06-2010, 06:46 PM
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| | | Re: What is this eating me?
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Originally Posted by Wild-Woman  Oh yes indeed. Has the 'ouch' kicked in yet? | Luckily I don't react to horse fly bites. That was the fourth one that bit me yesterday evening. Two were on the back of my right leg and I couldn't get the camera to them and the third was badly positioned so the background wasn't that good. Could be a new theme for a series of photos,"Things biting me", I've also got a shot from last year of a mozzie snacking on me. |
27-06-2010, 06:51 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Gloucestershire
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| |  Re: What is this eating me?
Aren't you the lucky one!!! I'm scared stiff of them: bites always turn nasty. Good photo though.
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27-06-2010, 07:36 PM
| | Frozen | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Brockenhurst
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| | | Re: What is this eating me?
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Originally Posted by Hedera Aren't you the lucky one!!! I'm scared stiff of them: bites always turn nasty. Good photo though. | Me too Hedera, some of these took a liking to me yeasterday but i managed to get rid of them before they bit which is just as well as they cause me real problems as well.
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28-06-2010, 12:56 AM
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| | | Re: What is this eating me?
Morning Mike,
An excellent photo, I must say. They have such beautiful eyes and wings, don't they. Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike Jackson I've also got a shot from last year of a mozzie snacking on me. | I want to try that too, but I never have a camera with me when it happens!
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28-06-2010, 06:51 AM
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| | | Re: What is this eating me?
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Originally Posted by Jason Green Morning Mike,
An excellent photo, I must say. They have such beautiful eyes and wings, don't they.
I want to try that too, but I never have a camera with me when it happens!
Take care, Jason | 
My first thought was how blood-thirstily crazy those eyes looked.
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