No, I don't think they're like black flies. I was hiking in the White Mountains (NH) in black fly season once and they're small swarming flies. They bite like crazy but "Off" seems to work on them.
The greenheads are like these
big things. There are a lot that are bigger than the one in that photo. Once when I stayed on Plum Island I saw this
enormous one. I got a bite from one last year on the beach. The bites swell up and itch way worse than a mosquito bite.
Luckily, most of the beaches in Mass., NH, and Maine don't have them. They just seem to be around this five or ten mile line of beaches that are at the mouths of a couple of rivers, where there are a lot of marshes, in Essex county, Mass. (and only for a few weeks, I think).
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I'm not much of a mountain hiker, by the way. Just that one time. (Oops. And once in California, also. I forgot.)
So it looks like Associated Content is now going to be part of Yahoo. According to the home page, people's articles will now reach millions of people, thanks to Yahoo.
Can this woman really just publish these attacks on Kris without any repercussions? Can you just write any kind of slander on that site?
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