JudoP wrote on Nov 28
th, 2017 at 10:05am:
I second horseflies. For anyone not familiar, they are essentially a housefly looking thing scaled up to the size of a hornet, that sucks your blood like a mosquito on roids.
I went up a mountain in Canada before, and it was just thick with horseflies and mosquitos. Even covered in insect repellent they bite you to shreds.
Ticks really suck too, first time I went to do archery in the forest I got three of the little suckers head deep in me. Nasty.
Ticks and Horseflies are horrible little buggers. Horse Flies like to play psychological warfare with their target with their nasty buzzing before trying to bite you (kind of a fun "QTE" when they land you though).
Ticks on the other hand are the last thing I ever want to see crawling around on my lap in a truck after a good day's hike. I was small child when my brother tried to burn the sucker with its head burrowed while I was still under the impression that I would either burst into flames or have searing pain.
I still have an aversion to being near a tick to this day. For its seemingly invulnerable structure, slow movement, and the spook of seeing one engorged to about the size of a fingernail or so.