You're walking in the woods or a field and there's a damn biting fly buzzing around your head. It keeps trying to land on your head and you know if you let it, you'll feel a painful chomp.  Those flies are almost malicious in the way they'll follow you around as you're walking. They're evil.

These flies are known as deer flies. You've seen them before when you occasionally managed to catch one as its biting you.

It turns out, it's not easy to get rid of them. You can't just put on insect repellent and call it a day.  No, these nasty bugs work by seeing motion. They see you moving and they go for your head.

Around here, they can get pretty nasty to the point where no one wants to walk around. There's not that many of them, but how many hyper-aggressive biting bugs do you need before you don't want to go somewhere. 

While searching the net, I found a product that claims to help. It's basically a sticky pad you put on the top of a baseball cap. You then walk around the area that has a problem and the deer flies get stuck on them when they land to bite. They look ridiculous. But the good news is that if you do it occasionally, you can really cut down on the # of deer flies (there aren't that many of them in a given area).

So what I found was the Deer Fly Defense Patch. And as ridiculous as they looked, they really do work.

After walking around the woods on our property

I just put the patch on my favorite hat. When I'm done, I just remove the patch and toss out the caught flies. I got 10 of them in just a few minutes. After that, I could walk around in relative peace.  My kids had a blast with them as well.

Anyone who has ever felt the painful bite of these nasty flies (often mistakenly called horseflies -- that's what I was calling them before I looked it up) can now know the sweet revenge.  Flies think they're smart but I can now prove to them that I'm twice as smart as they are!