I was amazed to see the deer keds (I think also called a "louse fly") that the poor little buck I took this year was carrying. I have seen one in the last 37 years I have been hunting. This guy had 30 or more in his crotch and along his belly. A little larger than a hungry tick, but faster and they scuttle sideways like a crab. They vanish under the hair very quickly.
From what I read they fly to a host and shed their wings. Will bite humans (though we're not the preferred host) and do also carry Lyme disease.
Anyone else seeing these nasty little beggers in their regions?
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We've been dealing with them for years!!! Ugly little guys and when you see them your skin will crawl for hours. My buck was covered with them AND ticks this year!!
I've never seen one of those. I "rose to the plug" thinking you'd killed a deer in tennis shoes like the old Groucho safari joke about "shooting an elephant in his pajamas".....
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I've never seen one of those. I "rose to the plug" thinking you'd killed a deer in tennis shoes like the old Groucho safari joke about "shooting an elephant in his pajamas".....
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Charlie what part of the state are you in? I'm in
Caledonia which is south of Rochester and the only time I've seen one is when I was hunting in the north country near Harrisville.
We have them in the mountain region of PA. They seem active on a warm day late in the year when you lay down for a nap. Sometimes one gets on you. You can't swat them off, the lay flat and don't move for awhile. Later when driving back to camp they you'll feel it again.
Tedd
I have never seen one and from the sounds of it don't want to.
QuoteOriginally posted by nashoba:
Charlie what part of the state are you in? I'm in Caledonia which is south of Rochester and the only time I've seen one is when I was hunting in the north country near Harrisville.
Just inside the northern edge of Broome County - about 15 miles NE of Binghamton (Between Tunnel and Quinneville if you have a really good map).
"How he got in my pajamas I don't know."
Never heard of those nasty little critters!!!
Bisch
Long Island deer are always loaded with them.
I have seen them in pa. Mostly on the turkeys I have killed.
I would think a fly without wings should be called a walk.