Summer trips to nature are overshadowed by annoying insects. If you are near a body of water, you risk getting bitten by horseflies. Horseflies attack both in hot sunny weather and on a gloomy day. They can infect, so you need to know how to protect yourself and your children from subsequent troubles. These annoying insects are almost never found in the city, as they live near all kinds of water sources.
They see their prey from afar - it can be either an animal or a person. Horseflies have sharp eyesight, despite their name. In addition, they react to movement, feel carbon dioxide and smell coming from a person. Like mosquitoes, only females drink blood. They need it to reproduce and lay eggs.
Sharp jaws cut through the skin. That is why horsefly bites are very painful. The wound immediately begins to itch unbearably, sometimes blood continues to ooze from it.
It is advisable to treat it with any alcohol-containing solution or brilliant green as soon as possible, as a horsefly bite can cause a lot of problems.
How to protect yourself from horseflies
- Experimentally it wasthese blood-sucking parasites have been observed to respond well to color. They are attracted to dark clothing. Therefore, if you are going to a picnic near a pond, it is better to wear something light. The looser the clothes, the better. Even better, if it is double, for example, two shirts or a shirt and a jumper.
- A horsefly circles over its prey for a while. It can be identified by a characteristic loud buzz. Be sure he doesn't get left behind, so arm yourself with a branch and try to attack first.
- Don't be too lazy to pull up an awning as a barrier against insects, especially if you have children with you in nature.
- If you are going to work in a suburban area and are afraid of getting bitten by horseflies, then use special tools. All kinds of repellents can be found in the pharmacy. Be careful: some of them can not be applied to the skin (only to clothing)!
Gidfly Bite: Treatment
The female horsefly behaves extremely cautiously. During the day, she eats several dozen times and can carry a huge number of infections and viruses living in the blood of humans and animals.
A horsefly bite causes pain. In addition, these insects are not very clean - they sit on both feces and animal corpses.
Pain and redness of the wound is the first reaction. It is joined by itching, sometimes an allergy to insect saliva. A necessary measure for treating a bite is treating the wound with an antiseptic. In case of allergic edema, bite ointment will help. S alt solution helps a lot. In the event of a temperature jump,fever, vomiting, weakness, diarrhea, self-medication should be stopped and see a doctor.
How to destroy horseflies in your summer cottage
As a rule, summer residents suffer from these bloodsuckers. To get rid of horseflies, you need to drain swampy ditches and pits. Or set up huts-traps. Such a hut can be made from branches and covered with a dark cloth with a hole. Horseflies like to sit on dark objects, so they will surely fly into such a structure. In the most extreme case, you can resort to chemicals. Usually, disinfection is carried out by the relevant services at the written request of the victim.
