How do you deal with Deer Flies?

[Bike Writer]

On our dirt road ride there was a swarm behind me and another swarm behind my husband. I got bit on the butt, so I know they just don't stick to heads. When I say swarm, I mean it looks like a small cloud! Incentive to go faster I guess. I once tried to out run a swarm of flies in Colorado on a trail. Lucky for me there aren't grizzlies there. I did get far enough out from my noisy family that I was lucky enough to get to hear en elk bugle!

That would be enough to give me nightmares! ICK.

Pretty cool about the elk though...

[Bike Writer]

My bike is in desperate need of washing, and I just don't want to go standing around outside in the flies.

That stinks! They are not around where I live because I'm right in the small downtown. But when I get a couple miles out of town on the back roads, watch out.

[Bike Writer]

I thought the season would have been over by now, I was heading out to a very rural remote area where I had seen swarms so I wasn't taking any chances and made sure I had a fresh sticker on my helmet. No bites today and only saw one deer fly but when I got home and took my helmet off I had caught three of the little buggers. I don't get it, they seem to have a triangular pattern just like last time?