by grumpy old bagger » Fri Sep 05, 2014 2:47 pm
Anybody know much about keds?
I've been aware of these annoying flies for a number of years, but I've only recently discovered what they are. And worse, what they do! (Find deer. Land on deer. Shed wings. Complete life cycle living on deer, sucking its blood. Eeech..)
I'm really not too hot with parasites, and these things give me the heeby-jeebies. They're so hard to brush off you, and they seem determined to crawl up your sleeve or down the back of your neck... I once came home from the hill, took a shower and one fell out of my hair - AAARGH!
Wikipedia, bless it, tells me that they tend not to make mistakes with their hosts (thank god), but they have been known to bite humans. So far I've been lucky, and all they've done is really creep me out, but has anybody had any worse experiences of them?
(I probably shouldn't even ask - I might never go out again!)