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Houseflies that bite?


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Well probably NOT houseflies then, but certainly look just like them.[:@]

We seemed to have LOADS this year. South 87. They land on you just like a fly does, and as you are preparing to swat them, you get a pain like someone touched you with a white hot needle!

I've also killed them on the windows inside with a fly swatter, to find a HUGE smear of what appears to be blood[+o(]

What are they? They don't look like any species of horsefly I've come across either. Someone suggested "Bot-flies" but I don't know........

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Yes Puzzled the bog standard french house flies do bite, it was something that amazed us when we first moved here. They nip but don't leave any mark or reaction. We used to have a Gite and guests often complained about fleas. We explained it was flies and from look on their faces I'm sure they didn't believe us.
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Taons or horseflies http://www.completefrance.com/cs/forums/1387184/ShowPost.aspx ?

http://images.google.fr/images?hl=fr&q=taon&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

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Doesn't look like any of those pics, they are a little smaller than a large housefly, (NOT a bluebottle), and as mentioned by Poppy, they settle, then there is a REALLY sharp pain, but no mark, no resulting itch, pain, raised area, nothing.

The pain is enough to make you jump, and exclaim, but leaves no lasting pain.

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