To think thunder flies are the scourge of the British summer?

[mycatlikestwiglets]

Itchy little fuckers are everywhere today. I have been driven out of my garden and back into my very noisy house where workmen are. I actually think that when humankind is extinct it may be thunderflies that take over the earth

[70isaLimitNotaTarget]

Anyone know when Flying Ant Day is due?
Papers said June. Its now mid July


We've had lots of fuzzy bees just hanging on the willow tree leaves .

[Typhers]

How do they get inside sealed double glazed windows... HOW?! 😡

[Mumwotdrums]

We call them wheat fleas! I hate them with a vengeance. My windows are now shut tight until the harvest is finished. 😣

[sebsmummy1]

Oh yes. I am a woman demented during harvest time as they make your skin twitch uncontrollably wherever they land.

There was a day last year, when we lived very close to arable fields, where I was breadcrumbed in the fuckers. Made worse by sweat of course as they just stick.

[CarefullyAirbrushedPotato]

you're complaining about thrips? but they're harmless! you want to try bloody blandford flies

[mycatlikestwiglets]

Northumberlandlass

[Capitola]

They are annoying, but not as annoying as mosquitoes.

I am covered in mossie bites .

[Dakiara]

They crawl inside my photo frames - something else I haven't got time to dust! Itchy little gits. And you can't squash them as they fit between the atoms of whatever you use!

[Northumberlandlass]

I HAVE thunder thighs....I was getting ready to kick ass & be offended

[wtffgs]

I know Northumberlandlass - I was "distraught" at the thought of them

[combust22]

THousands of thunder flies here. I have two live ones crawing inside the screen of my PC. THey cling to washing, I find them inside my bra, feel the familiar crawling across my face to find one there. We are in a deep rural area. Very few wasps yet this year though.

[Plomino]

We live in the middle of farming central , and have combines round us in every direction , but haven't had any thunder flies at all . But midges ! Bloody hell fire , they're everywhere . Whether it's because we also are surrounded by water I don't know , but they're driving us nuts . On every surface, everywhere . I was at the train station the other night , and everyone there was constantly slapping the little fuckers away .

[Northumberlandlass]

I don't know what they are.
I had to reread your title, I thought it said 'Thunder Thighs'

[mycatlikestwiglets]

Having sought refuge in the house I discovered the workmen had thrown open the windows and the whole feckin house was infested with bastard thunderflies. Poor 8mo DD was covered in them when I got her out of the bath as I hadn't realised there was a load lurking on her towel in the bathroom

The one saving grace about thunderflies is that they seem either to disappear or die off when it gets dark. Trying not to think too hard about where they go...

[CarbeDiem]

If those are the ones that look like little earwigs minus the pincers then yanbu - I hate them although I haven't noticed them up north for a while.

I have been bitten by sandflies/fleas or whatever they are - the little feckers have had a feast on me while I was at the beach on sunday. I can't stop scratching :(

I don't mind wasps and bees - I try to stay calm and relaxed and move away to not agitate them. Unless, of course, I encounter an arsehole wasp intent on attacking me then I scream like a banshee and run.

[londonrach]

I love thunder flies. They remind me of visiting dsgm in Scarborough and reading Fred Bassett books (she had sooooo many of them) and butterfly cakes. Dsgm promised I'd have those Fred Bassett books when dgf died. I loved reading those books lying in their garden. I remember being covered by thunder flies and asking df about them. Memories are strange..... Thunder flies Remind me of Scarborough and Fred basset. Still not got Fred Bassett books though...

[OneSkinnyChip]

YABU because that title is reserved for bastard wasps

[fanjoforthemammaries7850]

I look like I have chickenpox as am so covered in midge bites. I hate them.

[wafflyversatile]

oh, that bite at the back of my knee was probably a corn lice?

And possibly the other two bites on my legs?

[Rissolesfortea]

I used to live in Lincolnshire so I remember them well, moved 300 miles away from them, none here [smug].

[Cereal0ffender]

My old office was next to a field and our monitors all had them

[ouryve]

I made the mistae of hanging white bedding out, today. Had to carefully blow them off before I folded it.

They get into everything. My old laptop had a dead one inside the screen. I don't know how long it would have survived in there, but it spent several hours walking about, then DS1 spotted it and squished it!

[softlysoftly]

I had a thread on the little fuckers last week they are horrible!

I found one on my NIPPLE as I was trying to get DD3 latched

[chemenger]

Harvest mites are the worst. They are attracted to elastic somehow so I end up with lines of incredibly itchy, weepy bites along underwear lines. They also love the backs of knees and inside of elbows. Nobody else in the family gets bitten except the cat and she is horribly allergic and pulls all the fur out of her tummy, usually needs steroids and antibiotics and generally costs a fortune. I have just read up about them and apparently they can be so localised that only one or two gardens in a village have them. So why me?