Yellow Flies and severe allergic reactions

[NoHall]

Yep thanks ya'll. I'm Def. going to the DR for sure. Thanks all of you for posting your thoughts and stories and good advice. I am outside ALOT and have been bitten a million times. It seems to make sense to have a build up effect. Will discuss with Doctor though. Thanks.

We can name our kikball team The SoWal YellowFlies.

bzzz,
Kendall

Stay safe...

 

[DuneLaker]

SWGB. I'll try to hang our Black Ball where you won't run into it.

 

[Smiling JOe]

I'll be stocking up on DEET before I come down this weekend.

DEET doesn't seem to repel Deer Flies and Dog Flies.

No problem.

Before this devolves into OMB madness.

Those black balls are disgusting and useless. Run into one late at night after drinking. It leaves a really gross stain on your pillow. :shock:

A couple of weeks ago, I saw a lady (tourist) showing her little 2 year old son, how to punch one of those black balls, covered in dead bugs. Good for her that it needs new glue this year. I guess she didn't see all of the bugs.

 

[NoHall]

DEET doesn't seem to repel Deer Flies and Dog Flies.

Works for me...

 

[drunkkenartist]

bees, hornets, wasps! OH MY!! They don't bother me a bit.

But a yellow fly will leave a huge welt. Even after all these years down here. No immunity.

I just stay indoors every May and June and work on my fabulous un-tan.

 

[TreeFrog]

I don't expect it would help a severe allergic reaction, but I know several folks who have found that squeezing the juice of a freshly cut onion on a yellow fly bite will prevent the serious swelling and lasting whelp from the bite.

 

[greenroomsurfer]

Good morning from Yellow Fly Mecca. Two sure fired ways to keep them off of you. Wipe your skin, clothes with a Bounce fabric softener sheet or the preferred method that I use, spray your self with Burt's Bee's Lemongrass oil. I have several lemongrass plants in the yard so I grab a handful of it and run it through a food processor an then an old screw press and wipe the oil all over me.

 

[seagrovegirl]

Amonia counteracts the poison. Those bug pens that you rub on a bite are amonia. I didn't know that until I saw an old timer refill his pen with it. I tried it and it worked for me.

 

[seagrovegirl]

If anyone sees the construction going on at my house, it is a SCREENED in porch...just in time for the yellow flies!! Poor guys working on it are getting chewed up, though.....

 

[greenroomsurfer]

Hey Seagrove girl that works awsome on jellyfish stings to. Little useful useless trivia.